Sun YP (errrr NIS) woes.... mail.aliases map is wedged !!!

[Farooq Butt]

Greeting Guru(ettes):

I have a simple question for the YP mavens in th' audience.  Why oh why
oh why does Sun do the following with the mail.aliases map on my YP 
server.  Don't the smart boys and girls in Mountain View realize that 
this breaks the ypinit script on the slaves????!!!!????  (Take a 
look at the ypinit script, it does an egrep for '$master$' (i.e.
EOL-master-EOL) when trying to get maps from a master).....

The evidence:

lectroid% ypwhich -m
netmasks.byaddr lectroid
netid.byname lectroid
mail.byaddr lectroid
mail.aliases lectroid.sw.stratus.com
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ why is this fully qualified ??????
netgroup.byhost lectroid
bootparams lectroid
netgroup.byuser lectroid
netgroup lectroid
protocols.byname lectroid
publickey.byname lectroid
services.byname lectroid
rpc.bynumber lectroid
networks.byaddr lectroid
networks.byname lectroid
ethers.byname lectroid
ethers.byaddr lectroid
hosts.byaddr lectroid
hosts.byname lectroid
group.bygid lectroid
group.byname lectroid
passwd.byuid lectroid
protocols.bynumber lectroid
ypservers lectroid
passwd.byname lectroid
lectroid% 


questions:

  . Am I insane or is this really some weirdism that will cause slave
    YP servers to not transfer the mail.aliases map ??  (BTW my 
    slaves are NOT getting the mail.aliases maps because of the 
    wedgo fully qualified hostname on the mail.aliases entry)

  . What's a good workaround; at this point I cannot use any mail 
    aliases if I bind to a slave YP server...??

  . What causes this sorry state of affairs?  YP should make up
    it's darn mind whether it's going to use fully qualified 
    hostnames OR the results of `hostname`!!!!!


Please help!!

Bumming in YP land,

Farooq




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