yp domainname chokes 386i
Ron Stanonik
stanonik at nprdc.navy.mil
Fri Apr 21 15:13:39 AEST 1989
Our yp services are provided by sun4s running sunos 4.0.1. Our yp
domainname is +nprdc.navy.mil, to utilize the $m macro in sendmail.
When we tried to install a 386i (sunos 4.0.1) as a ypclient, it balked at
the ypdomain name. My guess is that it didn't like either the + or the
.'s, but unfortunately I didn't take the time to experiment.
To get around the problem, I temporarily created another yp domain, trcf,
using the same files as for +nprdc.navy.mil. I did this by creating a
symbolic link from trcf to +nprdc.navy.mil in /var/yp on the sun4s.
That allowed me to install the 386i, afterwhich I edited its net.conf file
to set its domainname to +nprdc.navy.mil. It rebooted without complaint,
and seems to be happily in +nprdc.navy.mil.
Ron Stanonik
stanonik at nprdc.navy.mil
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