From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 01:34:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EB116A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:34:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F74743D49 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:34:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i691Y2AE089395; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:34:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:34:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Doug Hardie Message-ID: <20040709013401.GE58856@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200407081559.i68FxZfO043201@whoweb.com> <20040708164237.GH57155@dan.emsphone.com> <20040708204417.GB58856@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: NIS server selection X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 01:34:03 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: > On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > >The best you can do is make sure "ypwhich" points to the local > >machine so that subsequent processes will use it. You can't force > >existing processes to switch. > > Thanks. I have now set 3 servers in the -S list. ypwhich shows the > one currently being used. I need to be able to change that. It > appears that ypset is the way to do that. However, when I start > ypbind with the -ypsetme argument I still get "sorry, cannot ypset > for domain NAME on host". I am running ypset on that server. That > message comes from a request to rpc prog 100004 which is registered > to rpserv so I don't see how an argument to ypbind would help this. > I don't find any similar arguments to ypserv. How do you make ypset > work without opening it up to the entire world? >From looking at the source, the -S flag resets the -ypset and -ypsetme flags. See if putting -ypsetme after the -S xxx arguments helps. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com