Ok, so I've been really swamped with shcoolwork so I'm just now getting back to this. I've resolved the NIS problem by renaming namesvrs to namesvrs.old and re-running set_parms initial. I did this because every time I start vi I get a message saying...
then it displays the file line by line as I press enter to scroll down, and when I try to change something it just won't. I'm in single user mode at this point if it makes a difference.
I'm also having several other problems preventing me from booting normally. there is a problem with SNMP and some sort of Software Distrobution Manager. I have no idea what this is.
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I would like to know if Redhat running NIS ( not NIS +) would have conflict with Solaris running NIS+. Currently I am running NIS+ on Solaris but will be adding RedHat to the network. I seem to be unable to find and information regarding... (2 Replies)
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ypwhich(1) General Commands Manual ypwhich(1)NAME
ypwhich - return name of NIS server or map master
SYNOPSIS
ypwhich [ -d domain ] [ -Vn ] [ hostname ]
ypwhich [ -d domain ] [ -t ] -m [ mname ]
ypwhich -x
DESCRIPTION
ypwhich returns the name of the NIS server that supplies the NIS services to a NIS client, or which is the master for a map. If invoked
without arguments, it gives the NIS server for the local machine. If hostname is specified, that machine is queried to find out which NIS
master it is using.
OPTIONS -d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain.
-t This option inhibits map nickname translation.
-m mname
Find the master NIS server for a map. No hostname can be specified with the -m option. mname can be a mapname or nickname for a
map. If mname is omitted, ypwhich will produce a list of available maps.
-x Display the map nickname translation table.
-Vn Version of ypbind(8), V2 is default.
FILES
/var/yp/nicknames
map nickname translation table.
SEE ALSO domainname(8), nicknames(5), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), ypset(8)AUTHOR
ypwhich is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.
YP Tools 2.14 April 2010 ypwhich(1)