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From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: bin/3778: ypbind -S domainname,server1,... does not function
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The following reply was made to PR bin/3778; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
To: jin@george.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG])
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jin@iss-p1.lbl.gov
Subject: Re: bin/3778: ypbind -S domainname,server1,... does not function
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 22:56:32 -0400 (EDT)

 Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Jin Guojun[ITG] 
 had to walk into mine and say: > 
 
 [chop]
 
 > > It works, but ypwhich kills it. That is, I cannot use ypwhich to fin out
 > > which ypserver is currently using.
 > > 
 > > The ypbind is killed a couple of seconds after ypwhich command issued.
 > 
 > - Exactly what FreeBSD release are you running.
 > - Exactly what arguments do you use when invoking ypbind.
 > 
 > # uname -a
 > FreeBSD fudd.lbl.gov 2.1.7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.7.1-RELEASE #0: Thu May 29 02:29:22 PDT 1997     root@iss-p6.lbl.gov:/usr/src/sys/compile/MinMax  i386
 
 Ach... okay. This is the problem: the ypbind code from 2.2.x and up will
 not work correctly on 2.1.x without taking special precautions. I originally
 suggested that you try the version from FreeBSD-current because your
 original PR contained a version tag that said FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE, so
 I assumed that's what you were using.
 
 There are two things you can do:
 
 1) Compile a static ypbind binary on a 2.2.x or better machine and use 
    that on your 2.1.7.1 machine.
 
 2) Since I develop this stuff on my home machine which still runs 2.1.0,
    I have compiled versions of the newer YP tools that will run on 2.1.x.
    You can FTP a copy of a ypbind executable from my home machine if you
    can't find a 2.2.x or better machine on which to build your own.
    The binary is at: ftp://skynet.ctr.columbia.edu/pub/freebsd/nis/ypbind
    I have a very slow link, but the binary is only about 30K.
 
 -Bill
 
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