Nis passwd refresh to client

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 14:11 +0000, Chris Hembrow wrote:
> Hi
> 
> when i change any details on my NIS server, I can't get them refreshed
> to the client. the server is redhat 9, and the client is FC3. if i
> change either the password or (in this case) the login shell, nothing
> happens. running ypcat passwd on the client shows the old details, as
> does ypcat -h localhost passwd on the NIS server itself.
> 
> any ideas here?

You should be able to force an update by running "cd /var/yp; make" on
the NIS master server.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>