Hi, > > I have a single NIS master server that's currently residing on a Sun > E450 running Solaris 8 and I want to migrate it over to my FC4 machine. > > > Can someone point me to a HOWTO or give me some quick help on how to do > this safely? > I migrated a Solaris 8 NIS+ master to plain files using the following command: /usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -d passwd >passwd This command can be used with the following tables: aliases bootparams ethers group hosts ipnodes netgroup netid netmasks networks passwd protocols publickey rpc services shadow timezone auth_attr exec_attr prof_attr user_attr audit_user To migrate auto_home and auto_master, I executed the following command: /usr/bin/niscat -v auto_home.nis.domain.com >auto_master After that you will have the plain files associated with the NIS+ tables and you only must follow the instruction of the NIS-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NIS-HOWTO/index.html Bye
