Appendix B System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+) Updates

Solaris 10

There are no new features specifically related to NIS+ in this release.

FNS

FNS is no longer supported on Solaris. Information pertaining to FNS has been removed from the Solaris System Administration documentation set.

Service Management Facility (SMF)

NIS+ is now managed by the Service Management Facility (SMF). When you start, stop, or restart a NIS+ service, use the svcadm command. The NIS+ processes managed by SMF include rpc.nisd and keyserv. nis_cachemgr starts and stops in association with the rpc.nisd service. These services should no longer be started and stopped individually.

Use of SMF also impacts the implementation of optional behaviors with NIS+. See NIS+ and the Service Management Facility for more information about using SMF with NIS+.