Many thanks to Sean O'Connell
The problem was tcsh and not NIS.
I have rebuilt tcsh and all is fine.
--------------------------------------------- Solution
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:44:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean_at_stat.Duke.EDU>
To: MC.Vialatte_at_cust.univ-bpclermont.fr
Subject: Re: strange behaviour with NIS
Are you using tcsh? With DU beyone pl5 or so, you have to
rebuild tcsh with -DYPBUGS.
--------------------------------------------- Original question
On 29 October 1998, MC.Vialatte_at_cust.univ-bpclermont.fr wrote:
> 1) NIS configuration
>
> NIS master server : Solaris 2.6
> NIS slave server : Digital Unix 4.0b,
> last patch : duv40bas00007-19980402
>
> On DU, ps gives :
> root 521 1 0.0 17:42:02 ?? 0:00.13 /usr/sbin/ypserv
> root 527 1 0.0 17:42:02 ?? 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/ypbind
>
> /etc/svc.conf :
> aliases=local
> group=local,yp
> hosts=local,bind,yp
> netgroup=yp
> networks=local,yp
> passwd=yp,local
> protocols=local
> rpc=local
> services=local
> SECLEVEL=BSD # for backwards compatibility ONLY
>
> 2) a strange behaviour ?
>
> user 'mcv' is defined in NIS map
> user 'coz' is defined in NIS map and in /etc/passwd
>
> > ls ~mcv gives nothing
> > ls ~coz gives the contents of directory of user coz
>
> But I run :
> > cd ~mcv
> > ls gives the contents of directory of user mcv
> > cd elsewhere
> > ls ~mcv gives the contents of directory of user mcv
>
> One result is that our http server (running on DU) is unable to
> retrieve user files.
>
> Could anybody give me some explanations ?
>
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