Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:21:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rpc.yppasswdd problem Message-ID: <199610231421.KAA17733@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610230659.HAA25334@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Oct 23, 96 07:59:22 am
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Christoph
Kukulies had to walk into mine and say:
[chop]
> OK, this is what I get upon the following change:
> printf("yppasswdd- debug:%s<=>%s\n",mastername,myname);
> if (strncmp(mastername, (char *)&myname, sizeof(myname))) {
> yp_error("this host is not an NIS master server -- aborting");
> exit(1);
> }
>
>
>
> toots#
> rpc.yppasswdd
> yppasswdd- debug:toots<=>toots.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> rpc.yppasswdd: this host is not an NIS master server -- aborting
> toots#
> toots# hostname
> toots.physik.rwth-aachen.de
>
>
> So myname is the fully qualified name while mastername is just the .
> short name.
Then you did change the NIS master's hostname after all. That's what
I said originally. /var/yp/Makefile figures out the hostname to encode
in the map by calling hostname(1), so if you change your hostname you
need to rebuild all your maps. (Note that yp_mkdb(8) will also grab
the hostname with gethostname() if you don't supply a hostname on
the command line -- this should amount to the same thing.)
At some point, you decided to go from 'toots' to 'toots.physik.rwth-aachen.de'
(no, don't deny it: the proof is right there :). This makes the value returned
by gethostname() different than what it was when you first built the maps.
So just touch all your map source files (/var/yp/master.passwd, /etc/group,
etc...) and then cd /var/yp; make. rpc.yppasswdd should start correctly then.
Again, I suppose I should make the error message more specific. :)
-Bill
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