ypserv: Simple network lookupservice consisting of databases and processes¹

The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup service consisting of databases and processes. It was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same, only the name has changed. Its purpose is to provide information, that has to be known throughout the network, to all machines on the network.

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypserv/

Author: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk [at] suse [dot] de>
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.26

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/ ypserv-2.26.tar.bz2

T2 source: ypserv.cache
T2 source: ypserv.desc
T2 source: ypserv.init

Build time (on reference hardware): 10% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.28 MB, 41 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk gdbm grep linux-header m4 make openslp openssl sed sysfiles tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).