Re: Linux NIS Slave Servers.

[William C Mount <mountwc@www.tremont702.org>]

On the NIS Master, there's a file in /var/yp/NISDOMAIN that you have to edit.  I've
done that.  That's didn't change anything.  Still not having any luck.

BIll

> Isn't there somewhere on the NIS master where you can list slaves?  Or, I
> seem to recall that being an optional thing.  My NIS memory's faded since
> switching to LDAP... :)  Maybe that'll get you looking in the right place,
> anyway?
> 
> --Danny
> 
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0500, William C Mount wrote:
> > Hello group,
> >   I've got a problem that's racking my brain.  The domain that I'm 
> > administrating has an HP-UX NIS Server.  I'm currently trying to setup
> > an NIS slave on a RedHat 7.0 Box.  I can get the ypclient working just fine
> > and ypwhich -m shows a list of all the correct maps.  Here's my problem,
> > when I try to do a ypinit, it fails trying to communicate with ypxfrd on 
> > the NIS master.  Here's the output from ypinit:
> > 
> > [root@lnxadmin02 yp]# ./ypinit -s node.dom.dom.com
> > We will need a few minutes to copy the data from node.dom.dom.com.
> > Transferring mail.aliases...
> > Trying ypxfrd ... not running
> >  
> > lnxadmin02.dom.dom.com's NIS data base has been set up.
> > If there were warnings, please figure out what went wrong, and fix it.
> >  
> > At this point, make sure that /etc/passwd and /etc/group have
> > been edited so that when the NIS is activated, the data bases you
> > have just created will be used, instead of the /etc ASCII files. 
> > 
> > I've checked the NIS master server and ypxfrd is running.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > William C. Mount RHCE
> > mountwc@tremont702.org
> > 
> > 
> > "Shirly you can't be serious?    I am serious, and stop calling my Shirly."
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