From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 23 16:55:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA22321 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA22312 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id BAA02073; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 01:55:27 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199708232355.BAA02073@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: NIS-master/slave w/ 2.1.7+2.2.2 In-Reply-To: from "Eric J. Chet" at "Aug 23, 97 06:58:05 pm" To: ejc@bazzle.com (Eric J. Chet) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 01:55:27 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Eric J. Chet who wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Robert Eckardt wrote: [..] > > The problem is simply that I want to use a 2.2.2 box as a NIS slave server > > with a 2.1.7 box as a NIS master. > > > > However, when pushing from the master with > > % yppush -d XYZ amd.home > > yppush: Transfer request refused by ypserv > > > > On the slave side I get messages like: > > ypserv[24772]: couldn't find master for map amd.home@XYZ > > ypserv[24772]: host at ZYX (134.147.xxx.yyy) may be pulling my leg [..] > Hello > The only way I could get the first transfer was manually using > ypxfr. Start rpc.ypxfrd, and then use ypxfr. After that everything > worked normally with the slave updates. Thanks ! That was it. I just had to call on the slave machine `ypxfr ' for all maps. Now yppush works again. Robert > Eric Chet -- ejchet@lucent.com || ejc@bazzle.com -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de