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Administration Commandsnisinit(1M)    nisinit - NIS+ client and
server initialization utility    nisinit -r  nisinit -p Y | D |
N parent_domain host ...  nisinit -c [-k <key_domain>] -H host |
-B | -C coldstart    nisinit initializes a machine to be a NIS+
client or an NIS+ root master server. It may be easier to use
nisclient(1M) or nisserver(1M) to accomplish this same task.
Initialize the machine to be a NIS+ root server. This option
creates the file /var/nis/data/root.object and initialize it to
contain information about this machine. It uses the sysinfo(2)
system call to retrieve the name of the default domain.  To
initialize the machine as an NIS+ root server, it is advisable
to use the "-r" option of nisserver(1M), instead of using
"nisinit -r".  -p Y | D | N parent_domain host ... This option
is used on a root server to initialize a
/var/nis/data/parent.object to make this domain a part of the
namespace above it. Only root servers can have paren