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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: rpc.yppasswdd problem
In-Reply-To: <199610221738.NAA14632@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Oct 22, 96 01:38:08 pm"
To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 19:01:33 +0100 (MET)
Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, current@FreeBSD.org
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> Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Christoph 
> Kukulies had to walk into mine and say:
> 
> > 
> > Since a couple of days yppasswdd doesn't start on my -current machine.
> > 
> > toots#  /usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd
> > rpc.yppasswdd: this host is not an NIS master server -- aborting
> > toots# 
> > 
> > toots# ps ax | grep yp
> >    80  ??  Ss     0:00.41 ypserv
> >   174  ??  Ss     0:00.02 ypbind -Stoots
> > toots# 
> > 
> > What has changed ?
> 
> The hostname of your NIS master server?

No, toots is the master NIS server.

> 
> I just got done explaining that if you change the hostname of your
> NIS master, you need to rebuild your maps so that the YP_MASTER_NAME
> record in the map files can be updated. This applies to _all_ your
> maps.
> 
> Do a 'yppoll passwd.byname'. If the master server name printed by
> yppoll is not 'toots,' then you must rebuild your maps.

toots> yppoll passwd.byname
Map passwd.byname has order number 845988379. Tue Oct 22 14:46:19 1996
The master server is toots.
toots> 

I also rebuilt librpcsvc.so, installed the whole /usr/src/lib
and all /usr/sbin.

> 
> -Bill
> 
> -- 
> =============================================================================
> -Bill Paul            (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu
> Work:         wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research
> Home:  wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City
> =============================================================================
>  "If you're ever in trouble, go to the CTR. Ask for Bill. He will help you."
> =============================================================================
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de