SUMMARY: NIS Problem? (printers information)

Hi Admins,

Thanks for goes to:
Jay Lessert
Rene Occelli and
Thomas M. McMurtrey

for their quick responses.

The problem was simple adn one that I overlooked.  The
Makefile contained the line :
touch $(DOM)/printers.conf.time;
but that didn't fit the directory structure of my NIS
server.  I changed the line to read:
touch printers.conf.time;
and everything is working as it should.

Thanks again for the help!

-Joe

--- UnixAdmin <sunixadm@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Admins,
> 
> I would liket to thank the following for their
> input:
> mike.salehi@ kodak.com 
> Lars Hecking
> John Leadeham
> Moore, Bryan
> Ivan Fetch
> system administration account
> Jay Lessert 
> McMurtrey, Thomas M.
> 
> 
> Jay Lessert and Thomas McMurtrey were even kind
> enough
> to attach copies of theri Makefiles for reference.
> 
> The reason I was getting the "no such map in
> server's
> domain" error messages is because I didn't have the
> nickname set in /var/yp/nicknames for the map, and
> after making the entry, that problem was solved.  
> 
> I couldn't find a Makefile that the previous admin
> could have been using to make printers.conf so I
> used
> the Makefile.yp entries to modify the Makefile and
> checked it against the entries in the attachments
> sent
> by Jay Lessert and Thomas McMurtrey.  After several
> tries and several modifications, printers.conf was
> made and pushed.
> 
> My only problem is that whenever I run make,
> printers.conf is made and pushed even if I haven't
> made any changes.  I have attached my Makefile and
> would appreciate the assistance of anyone who might
> have the time to help.
> 
> My original post is below.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Joe
> 
> > Hi Admins,
> > 
> > I don't know that I can categorize this as a NIS
> > problem but I have searched the web, man pages, my
> > O'reilly Managing NFS and NIS, as well as the
> > archives
> > and can't find an answer.
> > 
> > I inherited a UNIX environment that seemed to be
> > running well but as is usually the case, the
> > previous
> > admin did little documentation of the NIS and NFS
> > environment.
> > 
> > We have introduced several new printers and
> plotters
> > to the UNIX landscape and created the entries in
> the
> > printers.conf file in the NIS directory on the NIS
> > master server.  After running make, I didn't
> receive
> > the expected messages that the file had been
> pushed.
> > 
> > A closer look at the Makefile revealed that there
> is
> > no mention of a printers or printers.conf map and,
> > there are no other Makfiles in /var/yp. 
> > 
> > The most intersting thing is that ypcat printers
> on
> > the NIS clients produces a list of all of the
> > printers
> > that were previously configured but, not the new
> > ones.
> >  In addition to the NIS master we have on slave
> and
> > a
> > ypwhich printers on the master as well as on the
> > slave
> > results in the output: no such map in server's
> > domain.
> > 
> > I have considered rebuilding NIS from scratch and
> > documenting everything but until now we have had
> no
> > problems and I generally follow the old rule that
> > one
> > should never touch a running system.
> > 
> > Please help and I will summarize.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > -Joe
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