NIS issue

[horio shoichi]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:55:06 -1000
William Bierman <wbierman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.  I have searched the archives for this, to no avail.
> 
> I am attempting to setup an NIS domain.  I have followed the steps in
> the handbook, and have succesfully setup my master and clients (I have
> no slave server, as this is a small domain).  The relevant information
> is propogated correctly to all slave servers, with the exception of
> master.passwd.  This contains very old information.
> 
> I do have *:::::::: in my /etc/master.passwd file on each client machine.
> /var/yp/master.passwd is chmod 600 on the master machine
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
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Be hot on typo.

My case :

% sudo tail -1 /etc/ma*d
+:::::::::
% sudo tail -1 /etc/ma*d|wc -c
      11
%

As you see, nine colons are necessary after plus.



horio shoichi