[comp.sys.sun] Y.P.

Jim.Cottrell@durham.ac.uk (Technician) (10/08/90)

Following weirdness just hit me.  Playing with the password file, created
a userid, then ypmake passwd, all is AOK, then remove user from passwd
file, re-make passwd and .... ypmatch user passwd still finds the user,
ypcat passwd | grep user ... does NOT find user.  This holds true for the
NIS server and a slave server, and a pure client.  All are running 4.1,
the NIS server is a 4/330, the client/slave are SUN 3's.

Under most circumstances this would not be much of a problem, depending
upon how long it persists (20 mins so far), but it makes what I'm doing a
real problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jim.Cottrell (software technician) University of Durham UK.
Jim.Cottrell@uk.ac.durham

eugene@rutgers.edu (Eugene Rikel) (06/05/91)

I have a tapehost system that is usualy a Y.P. client. It has it's own
/ and /usr partitions. If the
Y.P. master's disk is corrupted I have to be able to use a rrestore 
utility. 
What is the procedure to make ypclient become indepent of Y.P. Master? 

Eugene Rikel.
rutgers!clara!eugene
AGFA-Matrix Div.
1 Ramland rd.
Orangeburg N.Y. 10962
(914) 265-0190 x8587
Thank you.