HP-UX Internet Services Administrator's Guide (May 2010)

2 Installing and Configuring Internet Services
This chapter describes how to install and configure the Internet Services software on
your system. It discusses the following topics:
• “Installing the Internet Services Software” (page 25)
• “Configuring the Internet Services Software” (page 25)
Installing the Internet Services Software
The Internet Services software is packaged along with the core HP-UX 11i v2 and
HP-UX 11i v3 operating systems. Do not create or modify any system file while installing
the operating system on your machine. The core operating system creates and modifies
the necessary files on your system automatically.
Configuring the Internet Services Software
This chapter describes how to configure the Internet Services software on your system.
It discusses the following topics:
• “Configuring the Name Service Switch” (page 25)
• “Configuring an Internet Address” (page 28)
• “Configuring inetd” (page 32)
• “Configuring Logging” (page 34)
Configuring the Name Service Switch
The name service switch determines where your system will search for information
stored in the following files:
• /etc/mail/aliases
• AutoFS maps (like /etc/auto_master and /etc/auto_home)
• /etc/group
• /etc/hosts
• /etc/netgroup
• /etc/networks
• /etc/passwd
• /etc/protocols
• /etc/publickey
• /etc/rpc
• /etc/services
For all types of information except host information, you can configure your system
to use NIS (one of the NFS services) or the local /etc file, in any order.
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