From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 21 17:25:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09485 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA09401 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 17:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 3143 invoked by uid 1017); 21 May 1998 23:22:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:22:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Tom , jkh@time.cdrom.com cc: Barry Lustig , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YP Problems on 2.2.6 Stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > I have problems too. I don't think their "fixes" improved stability as > What fixes? Who is "their"? >From 2.2.6 RELEASE NOTE: o Various improvements to the NIS code. Does not say by whom. Man pages not updated since the 1995, so I don't think "whom" would be listed there. I have searched through the mailing list archives and not successfully found the maintainer(s) of NIS stuff. > > they should have. I have my NIS master on a different subnet, so I must > > use "ypbind -s -ypsetme; ypset ". I always get an error, > > but the ypset works no problem! Freakin weird if you ask me. > What error? You can get timeout errors in that config before ypbind > becomes bound, but that is normal. No, I means _error messages_. It says, "Sorry, can't ypbind for host foo on domain bar." But it does! It does delay (like a timeout), and you would think it didn't work, but it did. Definitely a misfeature. % domainname bar % ypwich (whatever you ypset to works) > I use a special ypbind that can find non-local servers. How? How can you tell it what broadcast addrs to look for if they are not on your same wire? That would be a nifty addition to the package. > > I also think the docs are _really_ lacking. > > Docs are pretty good. I setup NIS for the first time from them two > years ago. There are man pages for ypbind, ypserv, and the overall yp > manpage. Well, they are admittedly bad. They themselves say to find a version of Solaris and look at their man pages. I know Theo de Raadt has better things to do w/ his time these days than support NIS on FreeBSD. I have asked several questions about how to set up slave servers, and noone can tell me. The man pages do not reference that at all. If I ever find out, I will update the docs. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message