Hi,

I have a master NIS server and several slaves. the clients of one of
the slave servers are not getting the passwd map changes, even after
starting and stoping ypbind or restarting the client or the nis slave.

The maps on the nis slave is ok and current. When you do a ypcat
passwd |grep someuser on either, the user's info on slave is current
but nto matching on client. I've checked all the settings and nothing
seems out of order. The machines can see each other fine, traceroute,
ping.... The client is bound to the slave when I issue the ypwhich
command and I see to related errors in the logs. Other pertinant
files like /var/yp/securenets and such all check out ok.

This issue is the same on ALL of the clients of this particular slave
server. I'm starting to think that I'm in the Twilight Zone.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Tom

In comp.unix.solaris Tom in Joisey <tom@nospam.techbait.net> wrote:
> Hi,

> I have a master NIS server and several slaves. the clients of one of
> the slave servers are not getting the passwd map changes, even after
> starting and stoping ypbind or restarting the client or the nis slave.

Is this forever or short term?

Did you disable or restart nscd on the client?

> The maps on the nis slave is ok and current. When you do a ypcat
> passwd |grep someuser on either,

either what? do you mean the slave and the master or the slave and the
client?

> the user's info on slave is current but nto matching on client.

Does 'ypmatch <user> passwd' match on the client?

If not, what does 'ypwhich' return on the client? The same slave?

Can you bind the client explicitly to the master or to another slave and
see the behavior change immediately?

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In article rvgt00hjefci46ou6j3dg5tmaihqok8bsv@4ax.com, Tom in Joisey <tom@NoSpAm.techbait.net> writes:
>Hi,
>
>I have a master NIS server and several slaves. the clients of one of
>the slave servers are not getting the passwd map changes, even after
>starting and stoping ypbind or restarting the client or the nis slave.
>
>The maps on the nis slave is ok and current. When you do a ypcat
>passwd |grep someuser on either, the user's info on slave is current
>but nto matching on client. I've checked all the settings and nothing
>seems out of order. The machines can see each other fine, traceroute,
>ping.... The client is bound to the slave when I issue the ypwhich
>command and I see to related errors in the logs. Other pertinant
>files like /var/yp/securenets and such all check out ok.
>
>This issue is the same on ALL of the clients of this particular slave
>server. I'm starting to think that I'm in the Twilight Zone.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom
>

restart nscd ? man nscd
Example 1: Stopping and restarting the nscd daemon.

example# /etc/init.d/nscd stop

example# /etc/init.d/nscd start



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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:39:07 -0500, Tom in Joisey wrote:
> The maps on the nis slave is ok and current. When you do a ypcat
> passwd |grep someuser on either, the user's info on slave is current
> but nto matching on client.

Is the slave by any chance bound to the master and not to itself?
If this is the case, it would explain what you describe.
Try updating the map by hand:
/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypxfr -f passwd.byname
/usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypxfr -f passwd.byuid

Regards,
Michael

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:39:07 -0500, Tom in Joisey
<tom@NoSpAm.techbait.net> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a master NIS server and several slaves. the clients of one of
>the slave servers are not getting the passwd map changes, even after
>starting and stoping ypbind or restarting the client or the nis slave.
>
>The maps on the nis slave is ok and current. When you do a ypcat
>passwd |grep someuser on either, the user's info on slave is current
>but nto matching on client. I've checked all the settings and nothing
>seems out of order. The machines can see each other fine, traceroute,
>ping.... The client is bound to the slave when I issue the ypwhich
>command and I see to related errors in the logs. Other pertinant
>files like /var/yp/securenets and such all check out ok.
>
>This issue is the same on ALL of the clients of this particular slave
>server. I'm starting to think that I'm in the Twilight Zone.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom

Just to update in response to the kind souls who offerred advice...

It turns out that most of the other "clients" on the subnet that this
slave in question services were actually bound to another slave
server. It also turned out that this one client was not getting the
map updates. This client was also on a subnet that was only serviced
by the one slave, so I converted this client into an NIS slave and now
it does get the updates and all the clients seem to be happy.

The other initial slave is bound to itself, btw. Not sure how I would
have fixed it had "newslave" been left as a client only. ...


thanks,

tom