fmbutt@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Farooq Butt) (07/21/90)
Greeting Guru(ettes): I have a simple question for the YP mavens in th' audience. Why oh why oh why does Sun do the following with the mail.aliases map on my YP server. Don't the smart boys and girls in Mountain View realize that this breaks the ypinit script on the slaves????!!!!???? (Take a look at the ypinit script, it does an egrep for '$master$' (i.e. EOL-master-EOL) when trying to get maps from a master)..... The evidence: lectroid% ypwhich -m netmasks.byaddr lectroid netid.byname lectroid mail.byaddr lectroid mail.aliases lectroid.sw.stratus.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ why is this fully qualified ?????? netgroup.byhost lectroid bootparams lectroid netgroup.byuser lectroid netgroup lectroid protocols.byname lectroid publickey.byname lectroid services.byname lectroid rpc.bynumber lectroid networks.byaddr lectroid networks.byname lectroid ethers.byname lectroid ethers.byaddr lectroid hosts.byaddr lectroid hosts.byname lectroid group.bygid lectroid group.byname lectroid passwd.byuid lectroid protocols.bynumber lectroid ypservers lectroid passwd.byname lectroid lectroid% questions: . Am I insane or is this really some weirdism that will cause slave YP servers to not transfer the mail.aliases map ?? (BTW my slaves are NOT getting the mail.aliases maps because of the wedgo fully qualified hostname on the mail.aliases entry) . What's a good workaround; at this point I cannot use any mail aliases if I bind to a slave YP server...?? . What causes this sorry state of affairs? YP should make up it's darn mind whether it's going to use fully qualified hostnames OR the results of `hostname`!!!!! Please help!! Bumming in YP land, Farooq -- Hi-Tech Disclaimer: NOTHING in the above article has any relationship to reality. If any reality correspondences are found, please notify me IMMEDIATELY. Any threats or abuse of any kind is purely unintentional. My employer is not liable.