NIS service not listed under services

gardenair · 05-14-2010, 05:04 AM

Hi,
In red Hat linux i want to implement NIS server. For that purpose i check the current running services under (Server settings,Services) but NIS was not listed in it.please let me know is there different name of NIS service or i have to install it separately ?
garden

ajeetsinghraina · 05-14-2010, 05:09 AM

Search for ypserv package or service-name.
If its there then probably you have NIS installed on your box.

The following is a list of NIS server daemons and their functionality.

portmap - The foundation service for RPC

yppasswdd - Allows users to change their NIS passwords

ypserv - NIS server daemon

ypbind - NIS client daemon

ypxfrd - The NIS map transfer daemon

gardenair · 05-14-2010, 05:26 AM

In the services i can see

portmap box is checked

remaining i can not see the services which u have mentioned except ypbind.
Now from where i may get these ....remaining services...?

Code:

yppasswdd - Allows users to change their NIS passwords

ypserv - NIS server daemon

ypbind - NIS client daemon

ypxfrd - The NIS map transfer daemon

ajeetsinghraina · 05-14-2010, 05:48 AM

In the commandline:

/etc/init.d/<servicename> status

gardenair · 05-14-2010, 06:36 AM

well i think I have to install NIS RPM from
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm...query=yp-tools

2- does't NIS work in a workgroup environment ?

ajeetsinghraina · 05-14-2010, 06:39 AM

rpm -qa ypserv ypclient

gardenair · 05-17-2010, 02:26 AM

thanks for the reply. well to configure NIS server i need ypserv RPM.
For that purpose i google and found http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypserv/index.html download ypserv-2.19.tar.gz and extrack it. I can see

etc,lib,makedbm,mknetid,revnetgroup,rpc.yppasswdd,rpc.ypxfrd,script,yphelper,yppush,ypserv,ypxfr and files like install-sh,mkinstalldirs etc etc

Please guide me that how can I install these services so I may start my NIS server.

thanks

chrism01 · 05-17-2010, 05:03 AM

Don't get them from rpmfind, use the RH repositories; that'll be safer.
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...onfiguring_NIS