[plug] NIS - Updating Clients ...

[Andrew Howell]

On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:03:05AM +0800, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> Tom Atkinson wrote:
> > 
> > I thought that the whole idea of NIS is that all the machines are
> > updated automatically.
> 
> That's the idea...
> 
> > If this is not happening automatically, either you are not adding
> > users/groups the way NIS wants you to, or, you don't really have NIS
> > running like you think you do.
> 
> It's the adding users/groups that I can't find docs on. Do I use the old
> commands? Are there new commands?
> 
> Andrew Howell wrote:
> > 
> > Install the debian nis package on every linux box and then read
> > /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz.
> > 
> > Especially the part about adding +:::: etc to /etc/group /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
> 
> I have done all this, and everything is working as it should.
> 
> However, if I add a group on the master server, that group is not accessible
> on the remote machines till.... when? How often are the changes pushed out to
> the clients? And is there a manual way to trigger an update? Under HP-UX years
> ago we used YP, and there was a command (ypmake?) that would rebuild the data
> and push the changes out to all the clients...

Like someone said already :)

Run 'make' in /var/yp

Andrew

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