From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 12:55:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01706 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 12:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01698 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 12:55:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA01772 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 14:56:23 GMT Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa12290; 2 Oct 96 16:02 EDT Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 16:02:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 2.1.5R Im trying to figure out how to set up a slave NIS server to a non-freeBSD master server. the man pages on yp state that the databases are stored in db format and not ndbm, and that ypserv and associated tools need to know about this if the other servers use ndbm - but I cant find anywhere where this is done. Could someone point me to man pages or othre documentation that references this?