Hi;
Thanks to all those who responded. It seems my poorly worded
question brought me a variety of answers. I understood that the
information in the master's tables got pushed to the client
automatically (according to several replies, it seems that the
interval is 2 minutes). What I wanted to know was how information
got from the files to the tables (on the NIS+ master). I was having
flashbacks to my NIS days and expected some /var/yp/make mechanism.
There is no such tool by default, although several people have
written their own. The answer I was looking for, and got, was
that nisaddent is what I need to do.
Also, for those that asked, the O'Reilly book I was using was
for NIS ( I am not aware of a NIS+ edition yet), I was trying
to extrapolate from any information I could find.
Thanks for all your replies.
Derek Eichele.
A list of respondents and the original post follows:
john@starinc.com
Thomas.M.Erickson.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
david@bae.uga.edu
Anthony.Worrall@reading.ac.uk
hschafer@igc.phys.chem.ethz.ch
adeluca@esrin.esa.it
torsten@mail.sachsenlb.de
bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
r_glover@wapol.gov.au
bergman@phri.nyu.edu
charest@chou.CANR.Hydro.Qc.Ca
fcusack@voicenet.com
dave@colltech.com
My original post :
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Hi;
I am setting up an NIS+ environment, and I would like to
understand when and how the information gets propagated to the
clients. If I make a change to the /etc/auto_home file on the NIS+
master, how is that change 'pushed' to the NIS+ table? I thought it
would happen automagically but it didn't seem to. I ran a nisaddent to
force the table to be updated from the file. Is this the normal
procedure, or do I need to change some configuration somewhere? I have
read the answerbook and the O'Reilly to no avail. Anyone have some
insight?
Thanks in advance.
Derek Eichele.
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