Hi,
I have a large-ish NIS password map (~9800 users), alpha 2100 as master,
Sun Sparc2 as slave, ~10 clients.
As we are a University we see large influxes of users at the start of the
academic year, and also a lot of returning students, which
generally results in a lot of password changes. Currently this causes big
problems with NIS, often leading to corruption of the NIS maps and
subsequent crippling of many accounts/services.
Because the password map is large, it takes a reasonable amount of time to
rebuild the NIS maps. In some cases, a fresh build will start before the
current one has completed, and in some cases this causes the map
corruption. My gut feeling on this is that the two YP make processes are
interfering with each other in some nasty way(?).
I wondered if anyone else had seen this sort of problem and had any fixes.
Simon
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Simon Greaves email: S.J.Greaves_at_hw.ac.uk
Systems development manager phone: +44 (0) 131 451 3265
Computer Centre, Heriot-Watt University fax: +44 (0) 131 451 3261
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
Received on Wed Oct 16 1996 - 13:24:01 NZDT