YP (now NIS) oddity.

[Technician]

Following weirdness just hit me.  Playing with the password file, created
a userid, then ypmake passwd, all is AOK, then remove user from passwd
file, re-make passwd and .... ypmatch user passwd still finds the user,
ypcat passwd | grep user ... does NOT find user.  This holds true for the
NIS server and a slave server, and a pure client.  All are running 4.1,
the NIS server is a 4/330, the client/slave are SUN 3's.

Under most circumstances this would not be much of a problem, depending
upon how long it persists (20 mins so far), but it makes what I'm doing a
real problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jim.Cottrell (software technician) University of Durham UK.
Jim.Cottrell at uk.ac.durham