From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 4 12:32:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14555 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patty.loop.net (patty.loop.net [204.179.169.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA14550 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from greg@localhost) by patty.loop.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA04784 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:31:53 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 12:31:53 -0700 From: Greg Wiley Message-Id: <199607041931.MAA04784@patty.loop.net> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Forced update of NIS passwords Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The form/CGI works to update the password on > the main YP server, but the process of forcibly updating the client machines > is escaping me at this time. > > How can I force an update of the password file on the client machines ? Your script could launch make to push all the new NIS data but we found that it's usually too slow for a web response, especially if one of th clients go down. You can also run the YP make from cron every so often and let form users know that their changes will go into effect within the next whatever minutes. You can also have the YP clients pull their db information period- ically (you should do that anyway just in case a client misses a push). Whatever works. -greg