NIS questions

[zhicheng wang]

thanks for that, but i want things automated. any
other suggestions?

 --- "Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P.C.M.Chiu at rl.ac.uk> wrote:

> I probably don't have the exact answers, and suspect
> there
> are some bugs.
> 
> But I know by experience to get round that, 
> invoke ypinit -s server
> on the slaves does get the maps updated.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Chiu
> 
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> On Behalf Of zhicheng wang
> Sent: 07 October 2004 11:24
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> Subject: NIS questions
> 
> 
> Dear all
> 
> i have a few questions about nis. i am using RHEL
> AS3
> and the yp suite come with it (ypserv/tools 2.8)
> 
> 1. ypinit -m does not push the maps to slave servers
> (i do have the correct hostnames in
> /var/yp/ypservsers, generated by ypinit -m and
> NOPUSH=false in /var/yp/Makefile). I looked at the
> ypinit script, it has a line 
> cd $YPMAPDIR && make NOPUSH=true
> 
> so even i changed the Makefile to have NOPUSH=false,
> it will be overidden by the ypinit? if so, why?
> 
> i can manually run yppush with no problem.
> 
> 2. ypxfrd (on slave) dose not update the maps, even
> i
> have put trusted_master: my.master.server in
> /etc/ypserv.con
> 
> again, i can manually run ypxfr without problem
> 
> 3. most importantly, yppasswd can only change the
> passwd in the master server. how to make the updated
> passwd (yppasswd) pushed to slave server
> automatically
> whenever users changed their passwd?
> 
> many thanks
> cheng
> 
> 
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> Z C Wang
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