Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 17:22:25 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: Barry Lustig <barry@lustig.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YP Problems on 2.2.6 Stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980521171143.3100A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980521151735.10107A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> > I have problems too. I don't think their "fixes" improved stability as > What fixes? Who is "their"? >From 2.2.6 RELEASE NOTE: o Various improvements to the NIS code. Does not say by whom. Man pages not updated since the 1995, so I don't think "whom" would be listed there. I have searched through the mailing list archives and not successfully found the maintainer(s) of NIS stuff. > > they should have. I have my NIS master on a different subnet, so I must > > use "ypbind -s -ypsetme; ypset <nis_master_host>". I always get an error, > > but the ypset works no problem! Freakin weird if you ask me. > What error? You can get timeout errors in that config before ypbind > becomes bound, but that is normal. No, I means _error messages_. It says, "Sorry, can't ypbind for host foo on domain bar." But it does! It does delay (like a timeout), and you would think it didn't work, but it did. Definitely a misfeature. <foo>% domainname bar <foo>% ypwich (whatever you ypset to works) > I use a special ypbind that can find non-local servers. How? How can you tell it what broadcast addrs to look for if they are not on your same wire? That would be a nifty addition to the package. > > I also think the docs are _really_ lacking. > > Docs are pretty good. I setup NIS for the first time from them two > years ago. There are man pages for ypbind, ypserv, and the overall yp > manpage. Well, they are admittedly bad. They themselves say to find a version of Solaris and look at their man pages. I know Theo de Raadt has better things to do w/ his time these days than support NIS on FreeBSD. I have asked several questions about how to set up slave servers, and noone can tell me. The man pages do not reference that at all. If I ever find out, I will update the docs. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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