Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 8, 2004, at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: The best you can do is make sure "ypwhich" points to the local machine so that subsequent processes will use it. You can't force existing processes to switch. Tha

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: > On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > >The best you can do is make sure "ypwhich" points to the local > >machine so that subsequent processes will use it. You can't force > >existing processes to switch. > > Thanks. I have now set 3 s

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: I have NIS running on a few servers. I have had them configured with the -S option with only their host name so they would use the local resolver. However, after a few problems with ypserv dying I tried ad

Re: NIS server selection

2004-07-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said: > I have NIS running on a few servers. I have had them configured with > the -S option with only their host name so they would use the local > resolver. However, after a few problems with ypserv dying I tried > adding additional servers to the -S li