NIS master->slave push failing
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Tue Oct 5 13:46:55 UTC 2004
acosta at ar.microlink.com.br wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is not strictly a Fedora question, so please apologize for the slightly-OT...
>
> I am setting up a NIS slave server on a FC2 box (the master is running on an old RH box). Apparently, all went well (I've followed the instructions here [http://daq.triumf.ca/online/nis/nis_notes.html#NIS master server setup:] and it has been very helpful), but master server is failing to push its changes to the slave server. This appears on /var/log/messages on the master server whenever the push is attempted:
>
> Oct 5 10:30:03 duchamp ypxfr[26894]: ypxfr: Can't get master address
>
> /etc/yp.conf on the master has this:
>
> domain tecgraf.puc-rio.br server localhost
>
> and ypwhich correctly returns:
Try using the real name of the NIS server instead of localhost.
Also make sure that both NIS servers are listed in the "ypservers" map: what's
the output of "ypcat ypservers"?
Paul.
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