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- From: borchert@titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert)
- Subject: Re: Help me with yppasswdd and 4.1.2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.144101.20791@informatik.uni-ulm.de>
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- Organization: University of Ulm, SAI
- References: <1992Sep2.162732.14695@wuecl.wustl.edu> <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Sep3174050@beck.nexus.comm.se>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 14:41:01 GMT
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- In article <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.92Sep3174050@beck.nexus.comm.se>, Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep2.162732.14695@wuecl.wustl.edu> kevin@rodin.wustl.edu (Kevin Ruland) writes:
- >
- >
- > I can't seem to get rpc.yppasswdd to work correctly. The symptom is:
- > passwd will change the entry in the passwd input file but the make
- > is not being done. I know the make isn't being done because the
- > timestamp, passwd.time, is always the old one. My input files are in
- > /var/etc (non-standard place) and I've started yppasswdd in rc.local
- > with, rpc.yppasswdd /var/etc/passwd -m passwd . The makefile in
- > /var/yp works correctly by hand (that is DIR is set right). This is
- > exactly the same setup I used on my old machine running 4.1.1a.
- >
- >
- > SunSolve recommends starting the daemon like this:
- >
- > /usr/etc/rpc.passwd /var/yp/passwd -nosingle -m passwd
-
- What is the -nosingle option for? It isn't documented on the SunOS 4.1.2
- manual page of rpc.passwdd.
-
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