From bb@suse.com Mon Mar  2 21:05:50 1998
From: bb@suse.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] NIS Server
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 22:05:50 +0100
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Mario Oschwald wrote:
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> Steven 'Svet' Downum wrote:
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> > Hey everyone,
> >
> >         I'm having trouble setting up a NIS server on SuSE Linux
> > 5.1...I've been using the NIS HowTO and the yp commands in O'Reilly's
> > Linux in a Nutshell. Both refer to a ypinit command I cannot find. I found
> > a ypmake command that which sounds like it should do what ypinit does,
> > make the map databases. Has anyone got an NIS server up on 5.1 and, if so,
> > how?
> >
> >
>=20
> First you have to decide if you want to run your machine as master or slave
> NIS server.If there=C5=BDs already a machine in your net running as master =
server
> you should install your machine
> as slave server. Use YaST to start the ypserver, portmapper  and also the
> yppasswdd (to enable remote changing
> of passwords). Also make sure that your server is also configured as a
> client, it should bind to itself.
> Check if the demons are running with rpcinfo -p localhost. You should have
> the portmapper,ypbind,
> ypserv and yppasswd running. ypinit should be found in /usr/lib/yp use ypin=
it
> -m or ypinit -s masterserver to create the ypdatabases or get them from the
> master. remember that this directory
> is usually not in your path so use the full path to run ypinit. also make
> sure that your master server
> knows about your machine if you install it as slave server, so it
> automatically sends you updated
> versions of its databases. ypmake can be used on a masterserver to update
> single databases.
> use ypwhich (who=C5=BDs server) ypcat (what=C5=BDs in the database) command=
s to check
> your connections.

There is a bug in the S.u.S.E. init scripts for setting up an NIS server.
The ypdomainname is not set in the ypserv startscript, and the server
is started after the client. So you have to include a line like

   domainname $YP_DOMAINNAME

in /sbin/init.d/ypserv and switch the links in /sbin/init.d/rc[23].d to

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Jan 22 18:00 rc2.d/K25ypclient -> .=
./ypclient
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           12 Jan 22 18:00 rc2.d/K25yppasswdd -> =
../yppasswdd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Jan 22 18:00 rc2.d/K25ypserv -> ../=
ypserv

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Dec 16 06:53 rc2.d/S14ypserv -> ../=
ypserv
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Jan 22 18:00 rc2.d/S15ypclient -> .=
./ypclient
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           12 Jan 22 18:00 rc2.d/S15yppasswdd -> =
../yppasswdd

Ciao,
        BB


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