Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:49:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ypcat works, ypxfr does not Message-ID: <199901291649.LAA22334@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199901291518.KAA02856@misha.cisco.com> from Mikhail Teterin at "Jan 29, 99 10:18:25 am"
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Mikhail Teterin wrote,
>
> root@misha:~mi (270) ypcat hosts
> [...]
> root@misha:~mi (271) /usr/libexec/ypxfr -c hosts.byname
> ypxfr: couldn't create udp handle to ypserv: RPC: Program not registered
>
> ypxfr: failed to get order number of hosts.byname: RPC failure talking to server
> ypxfr: Exiting: NIS server/map database error
>
> Any suggestions? My machine runs ypbind only right now, but I wanted
> to set-up a local yp-slave to speed thing yp a bit. But ypinit
> fails, and so does an explicit ypxfr of any of the databases...
>
> ypxfr with explicit `-h master' does not work in the same way... Any
> ideas?
RTFM. man ypxfr:
" Ypxfr copies an NIS database (or map) from one NIS server to another us-
ing NIS services."
You say you only have ypbind running. ypxfr transfers between
two ypservs. That first error is ypxfr not finding ypserv running on
your system. I cannot say off-hand whether the others are cascade
failures due to the first or independent problems.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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