Hello, all I set up a NIS master a while ago, for use with a small network. Since then it's grown, and I found a need for a NIS slave for times that the master has gone down due to hardware upgrades, etc.
So I set up the slave, and it seems to work right. Clients switch to it when NIS is no longer available from the master. However: this switching only works when I specify both servers in the /etc/yp.conf on the client machines. Before, I didn't need to specify anything in /etc/yp.conf. I used to have to specify the master, but then one day did something so that it wasn't required anymore (either that or it was a feature that I hadn't noticed previously or something). So that saved me typing the master server's IP into all the yp.conf files on the clients. Anyway, I was wondering what that "thing" was, so that I could configure the slave server the same way so that reconfiguration of the clients wasn't necessary, and they'd auto-discover the slave when the master wasn't available. Thanks! /ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
