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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 14:25:50 -0500
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: branson@widomaker.com, freebsd-questions@Freebsd.org
Subject: Re: YP/NIS and AMD
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> > # Set to appropriate flags if you want to use AMD amdflags=NO
> 
>  Here you should be able to start amd. I use flags like this:
> 
>  amdflags="-r -n -y ferguson -l syslog /ump amd.ump"
>  
>  where -y sets your domain -l sets the type of logging and most
>  importantly... amd.ump sets the file. DO NOT put a leading / on that
>  filename and amd will use the yp version of the map.

...

> > #nis_clientflags="-s -S clc.gdeb.com,vfr" 
> > nis_clientflags="NO"
> 
>  You should be able to start yp here.  If you are having to comment it
>  out ...  that is a YP issue that I have not run into...  I tend to
>  use -ypsetme so that I am hard bound to a specific server.  I do that
>  because generally the NFS server is the YP server and if they loose
>  the primary YP server, they have lost either home or /usr/local/ in
>  any case. 

Yeah, I can't have YP start up before AMD.  I'll keep looking into
that.

>  Interesting map.. I do somthing a bit more falmboyant but this reads
>  a bit easier. I also use somthing called /ump which is Universal
>  Mount Point which was introduced at NASA Langely. 
> 
>  (http://ice-www.larc.nasa.gov/LCUC/papers/ump.ps)

I just grabged it and will take a look at it.

>  I have some scripts that can convert this to a ypmap if you are
> interested and also allow you to keep this in a hierarchial format and
> compile the final amd.ump. 

Thanks, I may take you up on that.

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org