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I am trying to install NIS on our network (Red Hat 7.0 for the most part) and have been unable to find the answer to a simple question:
What process updates the maps on the NIS server?
ypinit creates the maps, but the instructions say that it should only be run to initialize them. ypserv is running but since I only have a single NIS server, yppush and ypxfr are not. yppasswd updates the passwd map correctly, but I don't see any process to do the same for the group map, etc. Is there something I should be doing with yppasswdd to cause these other maps to be updated too?
The Makefile must be recompiled after you modify anything within. Try finding the file/directory in which your Makefile resides and run the make command. This will rebuild your maps and should enusre that all updated correctly.
I am having trouble getting ypserv to run, but I did notice that after I specified which files I wanted to make accessible, running the 'make' command on the Makefile was successful.
I haven't made any changes to Makefile (running make Makefile confirmed this) and all of the maps I am interested in are already defined in the default Makefile.
I noticed on mine that the Makefile was already set up the way I needed it, so I simply added /etc/hosts to the all: line and ran make to see what happened. It recompiled and created numerous files (passwd.db, ehters.db, etc...).
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