Information about the package, ypbind, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ypbind package is designed for, The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain.
Package Name:
ypbind
Summary:
The NIS daemon which binds NIS clients to an NIS domain
Description:
The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS can allow users to log in 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 provides the ypbind daemon. The ypbind daemon binds NIS clients to an NIS domain. Ypbind must be running on any machines running NIS client programs. Install the ypbind package on any machines running NIS client programs (included in the yp-tools package). If you need an NIS server, you also need to install the ypserv package to a machine on your network.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.20.4
Release:
33.el6
Size:
53 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the ypbind package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ypbind
This command will install ypbind on the server.
yum remove ypbind
This command will un-install ypbind on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ypbind, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ypbind
This command will un-install ypbind 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 ypbind when using the -y flag.
yum update ypbind
This command will update ypbind to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ypbind, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ypbind
This command will update ypbind 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 ypbind when using the -y flag.
yum info ypbind
This command will show you core information about the ypbind package.
yum deplist ypbind
This command will show you the dependencies for ypbind. 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 ypbind
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ypbind. 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.