Re: U1/Sol9 machine refuses to see new NIS maps

From: Michael Tosch (eedmit_at_NO.eed.SPAM.ericsson.PLS.se)
Date: 11/30/04

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    In article <1101808301.tEDAbygBtyQ5Ir6z7rEZ8Q@teranews>, Mauricio <uce@ftc.gov> writes:
    > Let's say I have a Sol8 box as my NIS master server, nismaster, a
    > Solaris 9 box as the nis slave server, nisslave, a bunch of U10s and
    > sunblade100s running solaris 8, and a u1 running solaris 9. All have
    > been sunpatched as of two weeks ago. All the maps are in /var/yp/src of
    > nismaster; its /var/yp/makefile has been modified to know where to look
    > for them. I did some changes to the nis maps, specifically I removed
    > some accounts (i.e. modified passwd and auto.home (we have it so it
    > exports this map this way, as opposite to auto-home)). Also, all
    > machines are in the same subnet (for instance, the u1 is two addresses
    > above nismaster), have nismaster and nisslave as ypservers, and know the
    > name of my nis domain.
    >
    > After I ran /var/yp/makefile, all the machines but one now see the new
    > map; you can type
    >
    > # ypcat passwd
    >
    > and will see the deleted accounts are not there. But, the u1 is not
    > seeing any changes in the maps. What should I check for?
    >

    ypwhich -m
    shows all NIS maps and where they were built ( = NIS master).

    ypwhich
    shows the NIS server which the NIS client has bound to.

    ypcat -k ypservers
    shows NIS master and NIS slave servers. 

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Michael Tosch
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Hewlett-Packard GmbH
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