ok... now yppush doesn't work...

From: Hobbs, Richard (hobbs@mongeese.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 12 2003 - 09:17:11 EST


Hello,

You all probably think i'm stoopid now... but yppush doesn't work, and i can't
work out why! i also have another problem... let me explain...

I now have everything working... almost. On my NIS server, everything works fine
('ypcat shadow.byname' works, 'ypcat passwd.byname' works, and i can log in as
different users fine)

On my NIS client, this doesn't work so well... 'ypcat shadow.byname' works, but
doesn't display any results. No errors either though. I still cannot login as
different users on my client (i presume cos it can't get at the 'shadow.byname'
map). 'ypcat passwd' works fine though, and displays all correct results.

Also, i made a change to the '/etc/passwd' file on my NIS server, and tried to
push it into the NIS, but the following happened:

  turnip:/var/yp/hobbs# yppush -d hobbs -h turnip -v passwd.byname
  turnip has been called.
  Status received from ypxfr on turnip.hobbs:
   Transfer not done: Master's version not newer
  turnip:/var/yp/hobbs#

but i don't understand how this can be, because:

  turnip:/var/yp/hobbs# ls -l
  total 128
  -rw------- 1 root root 12525 Feb 12 10:50 group.bygid
  -rw------- 1 root root 12540 Feb 12 10:50 group.byname
  -rw------- 1 root root 12818 Feb 12 10:50 hosts.byaddr
  -rw------- 1 root root 12701 Feb 12 10:50 hosts.byname
  -rw------- 1 root root 12845 Feb 12 10:50 passwd.byname
  -rw------- 1 root root 12831 Feb 12 10:50 passwd.byuid
  -rw------- 1 root root 12837 Feb 12 10:50 shadow.byname
  -rw------- 1 root root 12346 Feb 11 14:24 ypservers
  turnip:/var/yp/hobbs# ls -l /etc | grep passwd
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1389 Feb 12 13:55 passwd
  -rw------- 1 root root 1372 Feb 4 13:50 passwd-
  turnip:/var/yp/hobbs#

and as you can see... the '/etc/passwd' file has a later date than the
'passwd.byname' file...

any ideas??

Everyone's help is *massively* appreciated btw, thank you a lot!!

Richard.

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