System V and Yellow Pages

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3 total messages Started by James M. Pelagatti Wed, 06 Jan 1993 07:14

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Author: James M. Pelagatti
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 07:14

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We are trying to get NFS and Yellow Pages running across a heterogenous Unix 
network consisting of DECstations (ULTRIX), HPs (HP-UX), Stardent GS's 
(Stellix), and Stardent Vistras (AT&T System V).

We've had some success but are having a problem getting Yellow Pages to work
on the Stardent Vistras. They are running AT&T System V Release 4 Unix.
From what I can see, Yellow Pages appears to be unsupported in System V as
there is no documentation that I can find either online or in the AT&T manual
set. However, we've done what we thought was right (there are no AT&T Unix 
experts here) yet Yellow Pages won't function. When I type `ypwhich', I get 
a "domain not bound" error.

Here's what we did:

	1) Set up a master server and 2 slave servers. These work fine
	   when serving the ULTRIX and Stardent GS machines.
	2) Ensured that `ifconfig' properly sets the network mask and
	   broadcast address on the Vistra.
	3) Used `domainname' to declare the proper domain name, i.e. the one
	   being served by the master and slave servers.
	4) Ran `ypbind'. It seems to start successfully as there are no errors.

Yet we still get "domain not bound" errors. We also tried:

	5) Running `ypinit' and giving it the names of the Yellow Pages 
	   servers. I'm not sure if we need this command as we weren't familiar
	   with it from other versions of Yellow Pages.
	6) Rebooted several times.

Can anyone help us with this problem? Please email to me.

Thanks!

P.S. For those who don't know, the Vistras come from Stardent which went
     bankrupt last January. Thus, we have no support for them.
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Re: System V and Yellow Pages

#39

Author: Gary Beckmann
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:28

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As the other half of the "we" in Jamie's message, let me add that we
can now bind the domain (that is ypwhich responds with the name of the
ypserver, but non of the "normal" yp maps (i.e. passwd, group, etc)
work as they do auto-magically on our Ultrix and Starden GS system.
Has anyone done this???

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Re: System V and Yellow Pages

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Author: Israel Pinkas
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 17:14

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jamie@snips.harvard.edu (James M. Pelagatti) writes:

> We are trying to get NFS and Yellow Pages running across a heterogenous
> Unix network consisting of DECstations (ULTRIX), HPs (HP-UX), Stardent
> GS's (Stellix), and Stardent Vistras (AT&T System V).

[Stardent Vistras can't run YP.]

There were a large number of bugs in the NIS (aka YP) that came with SVR4.
The bugs ranged to imcompatibilities at the data level to kernel problems.
Intel and a number of other companies labored hard to fix these problems
last year and submitted the changes back to USL.

If I recall correctly, Stardent was one of those companies.  Contact them
for help.

-Israel
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