My question: > Executive summary: > > I made a mistake on a NIS slave, which turned it into a master, and now the > only way to force it back into slave mode is to make it a client of the > master and not if itself. Which is not too good performance wise since it > is also a mailserver. Thanks to: Dennis F. Morse Luc I. Suryo Darren Dunham The basic answer is: - Lose the Makefile. cd /var/yp; mv Makefile Makefile.DONOTUSE - re-initialize the NIS slave using 'ypinit -s <master>' Which I did, and which made things work again as wished since the NIS slave is now a client of itself again and still accepting updates. Koos van den Hout -- Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid RSA/1024 0xCA845CB5 via keyservers koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl or DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 -?) Fax +31-30-2817051 Visit the site about books with reviews /\\ http://idefix.net/~koos/ http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ _\_V [demime 0.99c.7 removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jan 20 04:09:35 2003
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