lkw@solaria.csun.edu (Larry Wake) (05/09/89)
In my further adventures in trying to incorporate our 4.3-type RTs into our existing UNIX environment, I decided it would be a nifty thing to make one of them into a slave server for our Yellow Pages domain, especially as I was about to bring down the master for a few minutes, and wanted to keep the other systems from hanging while he was out. Went through the usual procedures, as outlined in "System Administration for the Sun Workstation," which the IBM documentation kindly points you to (!) -- no problem. That is, no problem beyond the usual discovery of yet another program that needed to be recompiled to recognize the Yellow Pages (ypxfr, in this case; kind of ironic). Brought down the YP master, and as expected, a couple of clients defect to the slave -- unexpectedly, though, these clients start to misbehave in bizarre ways. Just for fun, I type "ypwhich -m" on one such client, and discover that the RT is only offering 8 maps -- the Sun that acts as master offers 19. Further investigation shows that sure enough, ypinit on the RT has the Sun set of 19 maps commented out, replaced by the subset of 8. Why? Who knows? Maybe they just didn't want to see me go home early tonight. Anyway, just a word of warning to anyone else who ever might want to do such a thing. Uncommenting the first list of 19 maps and commenting the second list of 8 seems to work just fine -- the RT doesn't seem to care that it's offering more maps than it actually (apparently) uses, the other machines on the net get the maps they need, and everyone lives happily ever after, until next we meet with System Improvements Made For No Apparent Reason. -- Larry Wake, CSUN Computer Center lkw@csun.edu Northridge, CA 91330 csun!lkw "And every one of them words rang true..." -- R. Zimmerman