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Determining if you have NIS installed

On RedHat or SuSE Linux, you can check whether NIS is installed by typing the following command.

% rpm -qa | grep yp
yp-tools-2.4-4
ypbind-1.6-11

If the output does not resemble the above, you will need to obtain and install these packages. Refer to your system documentation on how to obtain and install these packages.

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