Odd nis problem..

[Micheal Patterson]

Nevermind folks. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now. The problem was 
starting me right in the face and I totally missed it.

Just an FYI, the # in the "#$FreeBSD: src/etc/group,v 1.31 2004/06/23 
01:32:28 mlaier Exp $" line in the /etc/group file is a *VERY* important 
thing. The affected gid was 32. Now, as it turns out, the 32 is in the 
proper spot to indicate that $FreeBSD is the group name. Who'da thunk!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal at tsgincorporated.com>
To: <questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:54 AM
Subject: Odd nis problem..


> I've used yp in FBSD for some time now. I've never ran across this 
> particular issue though, until now.
>
> My layout.
>
> I have a 4.10 yp master server. I have various servers linked to it 
> including other fbsd 5.3 servers. They do well. However, I have one 
> inparticular server that simply will not pull one "specific" group name 
> over.
>
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root    $FreeBSD    512 Apr 12 15:54 Usage Policy
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root    wheel       512 Jun  9 04:45 archives
>
> Instead of showing the actual group name, it displays $FreeBSD. Can anyone 
> shed some light on possibly why this is occuring since the particular gid 
> is viewable via ypcat group (itdept:*:32:root).
>
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> Micheal Patterson
> Senior Communications Systems Engineer
> 405-917-0600
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