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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 01:23:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Val <val@hcol.net>
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Subject: Re: more NIS setup
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On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Val wrote:

> Well, i figured out that my localhost reverse dns lookup wasn't working
> and that would generate the problems described in the previous message.
> Well, now i have the following problems:
> 1) on the master i can ypcat all tables except master.passwd (neither
> under normal account, nor as root), ypcat group shows the list of current
> groups fine :)
> 2) on the slave server when i get the same as #1 plus it shows group file
> of the local slave server instead of the updated group from master. when i
> run yppush on the master it complaints that the database on both servers
> master and slave is newer (why does it have to update database on master
> at all if it is already running there?).

Don't forget that the YP system uses a different password database than
the master server's system does, unless you change this in the
/var/yp/Makefile ...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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