From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 01:08:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25842 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25599 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 01:07:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04075; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:24:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 00:24:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Atipa cc: Robert Beer , stephen farrell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to setup NIS slave server? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Atipa wrote: > > Thanks to all who helped w/ my earlier quesiton. Got everything working > fine. > > NIS is doing everything I want it to, except maintain multiple servers. I > can not find any documentation anywhere as to how one would designate > master/slave servers. ypserv has no such option. Although I don't claim to be a NIS expert, I'm under the impression that `slave' servers are defined by the client using ypset -S. Slaves can act like DNS secondaries and ypbind to the master server to grab data, though. I'm hoping you found the yp and ypserv man pages by now. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message