Using NIS (Yellow Pages)

If your machine is running Sun's "Network Information Service", originally know as "yellow pages", read this.

You must:

First make an addition to the /etc/services file just as for a normal unix system.
Then, change directory to /var/yp and run make.

This will load the /etc/services file info the NIS information system.

Some people have found that they needed to reboot he system afterward for the change to take effect.