[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI NIS Server

[Peter Tribble]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <
lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:

> ypinit -m is hopelessly broken (no /var/yp/Makefile for starters),
> as is ypinit -s (compains about missing smf services).  And I don't
> see a network/nis/server service to start things up.
>
> Is OI really incapable of being a NIS server?  What am I missing?
>

There are 2 packages, my guess is that you only have one installed.

service/network/nis
system/network/nis

The second one is the client, but includes ypinit which handles both client
and server setup.
To run a server, you also need the first one, service/network/nis

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