NIS server selection

[Doug Hardie]

On Jul 8, 2004, at 18:34, Dan Nelson wrote:

> 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.

That did it.  Somehow I missed that in the source.  Thanks.  I 
appreciate the assistance.