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Date:      Sun, 24 Aug 1997 01:55:27 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de>
To:        ejc@bazzle.com (Eric J. Chet)
Cc:        roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS-master/slave w/ 2.1.7+2.2.2
Message-ID:  <199708232355.BAA02073@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970823185556.1890C-100000@gargoyle.bazzle.com> from "Eric J. Chet" at "Aug 23, 97 06:58:05 pm"

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It was Eric J. Chet who wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Robert Eckardt wrote:
[..]
> > The problem is simply that I want to use a 2.2.2 box as a NIS slave server
> > with a 2.1.7 box as a NIS master.
> > 
> > However, when pushing from the master with
> >   % yppush -d XYZ amd.home
> >   yppush: Transfer request refused by ypserv
> > 
> > On the slave side I get messages like:
> >   ypserv[24772]: couldn't find master for map amd.home@XYZ
> >   ypserv[24772]: host at ZYX (134.147.xxx.yyy) may be pulling my leg
[..]
> Hello
> 	The only way I could get the first transfer was manually using
> ypxfr.  Start rpc.ypxfrd, and then use ypxfr.  After that everything
> worked normally with the slave updates.

Thanks !  That was it.
I just had to call on the slave machine `ypxfr <mapname>' for all maps.
Now yppush works again.

Robert

> Eric Chet -- ejchet@lucent.com || ejc@bazzle.com

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