Information about the package, yp-tools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The yp-tools package is designed for, NIS (or YP) client programs.
Package Name:
yp-tools
Summary:
NIS (or YP) client programs
Description:
The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users to login on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). This package's NIS implementation is based on FreeBSD's YP and is a special port for glibc 2.x and libc versions 5.4.21 and later. This package only provides the NIS client programs. In order to use the clients, you'll need to already have an NIS server running on your network. An NIS server is provided in the ypserv package. Install the yp-tools package if you need NIS client programs for machines on your network. You will also need to install the ypbind package on every machine running NIS client programs. If you need an NIS server, you'll need to install the ypserv package on one machine on the network.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.9
Release:
12.el6
Size:
65 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the yp-tools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install yp-tools
This command will install yp-tools on the server.
yum remove yp-tools
This command will un-install yp-tools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yp-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove yp-tools
This command will un-install yp-tools on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yp-tools when using the -y flag.
yum update yp-tools
This command will update yp-tools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove yp-tools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update yp-tools
This command will update yp-tools to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove yp-tools when using the -y flag.
yum info yp-tools
This command will show you core information about the yp-tools package.
yum deplist yp-tools
This command will show you the dependencies for yp-tools. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update yp-tools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on yp-tools. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.