Re: Linux NIS Slave Servers.

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

Isn't there somewhere on the NIS master where you can list slaves?  Or, I
seem to recall that being an optional thing.  My NIS memory's faded since
switching to LDAP... :)  Maybe that'll get you looking in the right place,
anyway?

--Danny

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:50:45PM -0500, William C Mount wrote:
> Hello group,
>   I've got a problem that's racking my brain.  The domain that I'm 
> administrating has an HP-UX NIS Server.  I'm currently trying to setup
> an NIS slave on a RedHat 7.0 Box.  I can get the ypclient working just fine
> and ypwhich -m shows a list of all the correct maps.  Here's my problem,
> when I try to do a ypinit, it fails trying to communicate with ypxfrd on 
> the NIS master.  Here's the output from ypinit:
> 
> [root@lnxadmin02 yp]# ./ypinit -s node.dom.dom.com
> We will need a few minutes to copy the data from node.dom.dom.com.
> Transferring mail.aliases...
> Trying ypxfrd ... not running
>  
> lnxadmin02.dom.dom.com's NIS data base has been set up.
> If there were warnings, please figure out what went wrong, and fix it.
>  
> At this point, make sure that /etc/passwd and /etc/group have
> been edited so that when the NIS is activated, the data bases you
> have just created will be used, instead of the /etc ASCII files. 
> 
> I've checked the NIS master server and ypxfrd is running.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> William C. Mount RHCE
> mountwc@tremont702.org
> 
> 
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