[SunHELP] NIS+

Magnus Abrante sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sun Jan 7 07:11:01 CST 2001


> Admin,
> Does anyone know what is the difference between these following two
> commands:
> nisaddent -rv -f /etc/passwd passwd and
> nispopulate -ufF passwd

nispopulate is a shell script which runs nisaddent, so both of them
will do the same thing (using nisaddent).

i think nispopulate where created so it would be easier to populate 
all the NIS+ tables.

sorry for the late replies , i was out on a quite long vacation (;

        //Magnus Abrante
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