rpc.nisd, nisd — NIS+ Service Daemon

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/rpc.nisd [-ACDFhv][-Y [-B [-t netid]]][-d dictionary]
  [-L load][-S level]

Description

The rpc.nisd daemon is an RPC service that implements the NIS+ service. This daemon must be running on all systems that serve a portion of the NIS+ namespace.

rpc.nisd is usually started from the /etc/rc2.d/S71rpc run control script at system startup.

The -B option starts an auxiliary process, rpc.nisd_resolv, that provides ypserv compatible DNS forwarding for NIS host requests. You can also start rpc.nisd_resolv independently. See rpc.nisd_resolv(1M) for more information on using rpc.nisd_resolv independently.

Options

-ALog all the authentication-related activities to syslogd(1M) with LOG_INFO priority. ...

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