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Date:      Thu, 10 Feb 2000 13:17:28 -0500
From:      Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
To:        "[gill]" <gill@topsecret.net>
Cc:        unfurl@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS: Handbook sec. 15.5.3.2.2. 
Message-ID:  <200002101817.NAA33753@benge.graphics.cornell.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from "[gill]" <gill@topsecret.net>  of "Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:51:04 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002101241310.910-100000@pacific.int.topsecret.net> 

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>I have a question about how to keep the slave servers updated.  In the
>handbook section there is a reference to
>	 "...entries on your slave servers should do the job:
>20	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/libexec/ypxfr
>passwd.byname
>21	*	*	*	*	root	/usr/libexec/ypxfr
>passwd.byuid"
>
>The handbook does not indicate where these two lines should go.
>
>Where should these lines go and could you include a short paragraph
>explaining a little more about what their inclusion will do/change?

They should go in /etc/crontab.  There is a section in the ypxfr(8)
man page that explains their purpose.  About the 4th paragraph down.

-Mitch


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