NIS server selection

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 08), Doug Hardie said:
> On Jul 8, 2004, at 13:44, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >
> >The best you can do is make sure "ypwhich" points to the local
> >machine so that subsequent processes will use it.  You can't force
> >existing processes to switch.
> 
> Thanks.  I have now set 3 servers in the -S list.  ypwhich shows the
> one currently being used.  I need to be able to change that.  It
> appears that ypset is the way to do that.  However, when I start
> ypbind with the -ypsetme argument I still get "sorry, cannot ypset
> for domain NAME on host".  I am running ypset on that server.  That
> message comes from a request to rpc prog 100004 which is registered
> to rpserv so I don't see how an argument to ypbind would help this. 
> I don't find any similar arguments to ypserv.  How do you make ypset
> work without opening it up to the entire world?

>From looking at the source, the -S flag resets the -ypset and -ypsetme
flags. See if putting -ypsetme after the -S xxx arguments helps.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com