Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread ken
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, no? No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a client Okay, I'm definitely confused now. Nothing I've seen anywhere says that NIS servers have

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
This is what I get for playing too much GTA: Vice City instead of reading e-mail. Instead of saying what he said to Ken's responses, here's my thoughts. On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:03:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. My

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread pll
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, ken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + My copy of Managing NFS and NIS, by Hal Stern, page 23, says + that the NIS master should not include the +:: entry in the + /etc/passwd file. On page 26, it states that NIS clients must + have that entry. ken Adding the +

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread pll
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, ken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, + no? ken No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a ken client (unless for some bizarre reason it was determined that ken even though it served

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread Tom Buskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Is it running ypbind? No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, no? No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a client (unless for some bizarre reason it was determined that even though it served the data, it didn't need to

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-18 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:42:32 EDT Tom Buskey said: To fix it, I made all the YP slaves (and the master) bind to themselves. Paul, do you remember that day? No, I've subconsciously blocked it and other atrocities committed at that location from my memory. It's just too painful

NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-17 Thread bscott
Hello world, Red Hat Linux 7.3 (updated) kernel 2.4.20-18.7 glibc 2.2.5-43 ypserv 2.5-2.7x ypbind 1.10-7 I've finally had the need to start using NIS on Linux. It's been a looong time since I've worked with NIS, and even then, my involvement with it was pretty light. But I dug out

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-17 Thread Mark Komarinski
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:21:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello world, Red Hat Linux 7.3 (updated) kernel 2.4.20-18.7 glibc 2.2.5-43 ypserv 2.5-2.7x ypbind 1.10-7 I've finally had the need to start using NIS on Linux. It's been a looong time since I've worked with

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-17 Thread bscott
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, at 11:37am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is the Linux box the NIS master? The Linux box I am issuing these commands on (and seeing the errors on) is the NIS master, yes. 2) Is it running ypbind? No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, no?

Re: NIS - Could not read ypservers map during make

2003-06-17 Thread bscott
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, no? No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a client Okay, I'm definitely confused now. Nothing I've seen anywhere says that NIS servers have to