I was trying to install NIS in preparation for separating the web and email server from our file server. I followed instructions on the HOWTO file I've downloaded. I've finished the master server side, but when I was configuring the first NIS slave server, I got to the part where I needed to create a startup file or something, using nisinit, but I couldn't find it anywhere!
That's it. I think I really am being forced to learn LDAP...