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- From: drewo@dcatlas.dot.gov (Andrew R. Orndorff)
- Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NIS under AIX 3.2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.115945.21987@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Reply-To: Andrew Orndorff <dcatlas!drewo@uunet.uu.net>
- Organization: NHTSA Data Center, Washington, D.C., USA
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <36703@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:59:45 GMT
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- taylor@slc2.astro.ufl.edu (Charlie Taylor) writes:
-
- Well now, that explains the question I was just going to ask - we
- had just configured our NIS services and ran into this particular problem
- but couldn't make sense of where it was coming from. Thanks for posting this
- information.
-
- As for IBM's response - fix the problem people.
-
- >After speaking with AIX support in Austin, I learned that there was a request
- >for a design change on this at one time but that they decided it was too much
- >trouble to fix. So it looks like we're stuck with it.
-
- >A couple of possible work arounds...
-
- >1. run "touch /etc/passwd" every so often via cron.
- >2. run "ps -U" every so often via cron.
- >3. add some lines to you NIS makefile to go out and touch /etc/passwd on all
- > AIX clients when the passwd maps are updated.
-
- >Charlie Taylor
- >Department of Astronomy
-
- One othe question I do have though - has anyone been able to get
- NIS to work through a gateway?? For really idiotic reasons we have a couple
- of our workstations on different subnets and they are unable to 'talk' to
- the NIS servers - even when we try to set the server using the ypset
- command.
-
- General info - the workstations are at AIX 3.2.1 and the server
- is at AIX 3.1.6 (but not for much longer).
-
- Thanks.
-
- Andrew Orndorff
- NHTSA Data Center
-
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