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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: Adduser program in C
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 12:55:17 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: green@fang.cs.sunyit.edu, hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199605262201.AAA19567@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "May 27, 96 00:01:46 am"
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Ollivier Robert writes:
> It seems that Charles Green said:
> >         A feature I'd like to see added is the ability to detect NIS and
> > put the new account into the NIS database. 
> 
> Can we say that if:
> 
> 1. domainname returns a non-void value AND
> 2. /var/yp/DOMAINNAME exists AND
> 3. ypserv is running 
> 
> THEN YP is running and we're on the master ? 
> 

No, you could be on a slave server.  I'm not sure how to tell the
difference.

John Capo