YP problem with services file
Edgar Nielsen
edgar at pangea.Stanford.EDU
Fri Mar 15 09:39:22 AEST 1991
Hi,
I'm running AUX 2.0 on a IIx and just brought up NFS and YP. However,
when I did this I found that I no longer could use telnet, rlogin, ftp, etc.
After an hour or so, I decided must be YP since NFS seemed ok and inetd
was running. So I turned YP off in /etc/inittab(I was a YP client).
After rebooting, these services worked again.
(I'm doing this w/o doc incidentally - don't ask!)
So I got hold of some documentation
(that might be AUX 1.1) and it says that when you run YP it expects that
several files are mapped by YP:services,hosts,protocols,ethers,etc...
But my YP server doesn't map these files, just passwd and group. I guess
that when the inetd looks up stuff in the services file, it basically does
a 'ypcat services' instead of checking to see if YP maps this file and then
using the local services file.
On Ultrix there is a file /etc/svc.conf that controls this kind of thing
but I can't find anything on A/UX that controls this. Is this hardwired?
How do you handle YP'ing a file in a heterogeneous environment when
it may be different for different machines? I might be able to get
my YP server to map the services file, but it would be alot easier to
get A/UX to read the local file....
Send mail to me and I'll summarize to this group!
edgar at coco.ms.washington.edu
thanks!
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