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From: "Freeman P. Pascal IV" <pascal@mailhub.tfs.com>
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In-Reply-To: "House of Debuggin'" <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
        "Re: NIS woes with 2.0.5-RELEASE..." (Jun 17, 11:55am)
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On Jun 17, 11:55am, House of Debuggin' wrote:
> Subject: Re: NIS woes with 2.0.5-RELEASE...
> [problems with NIS+ server and FreeBSD client]
>
> Well, if you're getting 'procedure not available' errors when trying
> to do a yp_order(), then I guess the NIS+ 'compatibility' mode isn't
> all that compatible. I wish to hell I had an NIS+ server over here
> that I could have checked this with.
>
> Tell me: if you go to one of the SunOS 4 or HP-UX machines and
> use the yppoll command (i.e. 'yppoll passwd.byname') what does
> it say? This command does a call to yp_order() as well.
>

Here's the ouptut from '/usr/etc/yp/yppoll passwd.byname' on a
SunOS 4.1.3_U1 machine:

    [pascal@casesrv(ttyp7)]<3> /usr/etc/yp/yppoll passwd.byname
    Can't make YPPROC_ORDER call to ypserv at (null).
            Reason: RPC: Procedure unavailable

As you said, looks like NIS+ compatiblity mode is not so compatible.

I'll check our Sun Solve account to see if yp_order not being supported
under NIS+ is mentioned or not.

> Anyway, if you need a quick fix, ftp a fresh copy of
> /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getpwent.c and try rebuilding libc with it.
> (You'll have to relink some static binaries too, I'm afraid). I
> patched it last night to use yp_first() instead of yp_order() to
> check for the 'master.passwd.*' maps. I used yp_order() at first
> because it was faster. *sigh*
>

Will do.  I probably wont be able to get to it until Monday, but I'll
let you know how it works out.

Thanks for your quick response.

> -Bill
>-- End of excerpt from House of Debuggin'



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