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Assume that an ASCII file named /var/yp/mymap.asc
was created with an editor or a shell script on the NIS master.
You want to create an NIS map from this file, and locate
it in a subdirectory named home_domain.
To do this, enter the following on the master NIS server:
cd /var/yp
/usr/sbin/makedbm mymap.asc home_domain/mymap
The mymap map now exists in the directory home_domain.
Adding entries to mymap is simple.
Modify the ASCII file mymap.asc
(if you modify the actual dbm
files without modifying the corresponding ASCII
file, the modifications are lost) and enter the following command:
/usr/sbin/makedbm mymap.asc home_domain/mymap
When you finish updating the map, propagate it to the slave servers, as described in ``Propagating an NIS map''.