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Rudland, Sam [MDN05:8892:EXCH]

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Apr 30, 2001, 4:36:09 AM4/30/01
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Is it possible for me to have a NIS master being a master of two domains if
I can figure out a way to make the servers do the pulling of the maps of
opposed to the master trying to push them out??

Or is there any other way to have a NIS master serving two domains the same
maps.

Many thanks,

Sam


Jimi Thompson

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May 4, 2001, 11:38:05 PM5/4/01
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You should probably address this in a NIS group.

Rudland, Sam [MDN05:8892:EXCH] <srud...@europem01.nt.com> wrote in message
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Tom Hoffmann

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May 5, 2001, 8:23:25 PM5/5/01
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>> Is it possible for me to have a NIS master being a master of two domains

No.

Jonathan Abbey

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May 7, 2001, 3:17:03 PM5/7/01
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In article <9cj81v$hou$1...@qnsgh006.europe.nortel.com>,

Rudland, Sam [MDN05:8892:EXCH] <srud...@europem01.nt.com> wrote:
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| Is it possible for me to have a NIS master being a master of two domains if
| I can figure out a way to make the servers do the pulling of the maps of
| opposed to the master trying to push them out??

Yes, at least on Solaris you can. Do a man on 'ypxfr'. Solaris' ypxfr
has an option that looks like it is made to do what you want:

-s ypdomain Specify a source domain from which to
transfer a map that should be the same
across domains.

| Or is there any other way to have a NIS master serving two domains the same
| maps.

I'm not sure there is any standard way of doing what you are asking with
the standard tools, ypxfr -s aside.

On the other hand, you can always bundle up the text files that you
are using to master your NIS master server's files and propagate them
using scp, ftp, rcp, or whatever else. With Perl and the traditional
UNIX toolbox, you can script and automate just about any kind of
data file propagation that you can think of.

| Many thanks,
|
| Sam

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Jimi Thompson

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May 8, 2001, 12:11:49 AM5/8/01
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NIS is such a special beast you probably ought to post in a NIS group.

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