Re: Problems with NIS installation

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:56:30PM -0500, Margaret Doll wrote:
> Dear Group,
> 
> 	I have ypbind, ypserv, and yp-tools installed on my two 
> printservers.  the printservers are on different subnets, but I have 
> set domainname to a common name, geochem.
> 
> 	The master NIS server seems to have its act together except 
> that when I ran
> 
> 	/etc/init.d/ypxfrd start
yp service is started with the command:
 ============================
 /etc/init.d/ypserv start
Also why are you using ypserv in broadcast mode rather than server mode where 
yp.conf would contain:
domain <domainname>  server <server name>
================================
> 
> I got an error on the line in the script
> 	daemon ypxfrd $YPXFRD_ARGS
> 
> 	Starting YP map server:  execvp: No such file or directory.
> 
> I don't have ypxfrd on the systems.  I do have rpc.ypxfrd and this is 
> what SOLARIS uses so I change the line in the script to
> 
> 	daemon rpc.ypxfrd $YPXFRD_ARGS
> 
> This executes.  However maps are not being sent to printserver2.
> 
>  From printserver2
> 
> 	ypinit -s printserver1
> 	Can't enumerate maps from printserver1.  Please check that it 
> is running.
> 
> 
> 	/etc/yp.conf  includes
> 
> 	domain geochem broadcast
> 
> Is the broadcast from the master not going beyond the local subnet?
> Or is my fix in /etc/init.d/ypxfrd incorrect?
> 
> 
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