SUMMARY: NIS questions - which one is the master

From: Cathy Smith (csmith@dalsemi.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 1998 - 11:47:14 CST


hi

this was one of those rtfm questions. my apologies.

the original question was how do i determine which machine
was configured as the nis master and which as an nis slave?

the answer is "ypwhich -m".

my thanks to the following people who responded:

Alan Chan <Alan_Chan@CdnAir.CA>
Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com>
Bob Shaw <bshaw@spdc.ti.com>
Dan Hubbard <dhubbard@thepalace.com>
Daniel Lorenzini <lorenzd@gcm.com>
Dave Haut <dhaut@level1.com>
David H. Brierley <dhb@ssd.ray.com>
Derek Flynn <flynn+public@cs.uchicago.edu>
Dino Rivera <dinor@corsair.com>
Eddy Fafard <eddy@slimepuppy.apple.com>
Emy Parparita <parpae@jgbdev.fi.gs.com>
Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov>
Janet Hoo <Janet.Hoo@Ebay.Sun.COM>
Jay Lessert <jayl@latticesemi.com>
Joel Lee <jlee@thomas.com>
John T Nguyen <John.T.Nguyen@trw.com>
Kwok.Che.Tang@chase.com
Loring Safford <lsafford@mitretek.org>
Mark Baldwin <mark.baldwin@aur.alcatel.com>
Mark Spooner <mark.spooner@Central.Sun.COM>
Mike Blandford <mikey@NMSU.Edu>
Mr.Venkat D <venki21@hotmail.com>
Patrick L. Nolan <pln@egret1.Stanford.EDU>
Ramindur <ramindur@zuno.com>
Richard Kuehn <rtkuehn@sandia.gov>
Robert Hill <eclrh@sun.leeds.ac.uk>
Rodney C. Marable <marable@firefly.net>
Roy Culley <tgdcuro1@gd2.swissptt.ch>
Scott MacDonald <scott@msi-uk.com>
Sean Ward <sdward@uswest.com>
Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de>
Stuart.Little@dpcs-sw.co.uk
Sun System Admin <sysadm@its.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
Thomas Anders <anders@hmi.de>
Torsten Huebler <torsten@mail.sachsenlb.de>
V. Q. Hoang <vqh@dwrock.dw.lucent.com>
brw@jazz.njit.edu
wdkamps@srp.gov

cathy

-- 
Cathy L. Smith
Dallas Semiconductor
(972)371-6720
e-mail: csmith@dalsemi.com



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