Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
Variable data for the Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known
as the Sun Yellow Pages (YP), must be placed in this directory.
BEGIN RATIONALE
/var/yp is the standard directory for NIS (YP) data and is
almost exclusively used in NIS documentation and systems.[footnote 39]
END RATIONALE
[39] NIS should not be confused with Sun NIS+, which uses a different
directory, /var/nis.
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