On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:17:34PM +0100, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> I don't as such need to disable it. Enabling it is an effective
> workaround for the bug but it remains a bug. Following the howto
> document, it is quite logical to setup NISCLIENT=false on a server. The
> workaround isn't necessarily obvious so it could cause other people
> problems.

Right, yes.  Thing is that my first solution would be to just start
ypbind even if not configured as a client but obviously if you really
want to disable ypbind (as opposed to set NISCLIENT=false) then that
wouldn't help.

> The fix would be to make yppush access /var/yp/ypservers directly if the
> machine is a master for the domain. yppush's man page states:

Yes, yppush can be run on any machine.

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