SUMMARY: Swapping the NIS master server and a NIS slave server

From: Daniel Clar <Daniel.Clar_at_supelec.fr>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:46:00 +0100

The original posting was :

> what's the best way to swap the role of 2 NIS servers so that the
slave
> server becomes the master server and the former master server becomes
a
> slave server ?
>
Thank you to :

"MacDonell, Dennis" <DennisMacDonell_at_auslig.gov.au>


Well what I would do is something like this
1) copy the directory /var/yp from the old master to the new master
2) run ypsetup on the new master, to make it the master
3) clean out the directory /var/yp on the old master
4) run ypsetup on the old master to make it a slave
5) change the NIS_ARGS entry in /etc/rc.config on all the client
machines to
reflect the change.
6) you may want to restart ypbind on all the client machines, but it may
not
be necessary.

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You have also to stop the current servers between 1 and 2.

Daniel
Received on Mon Mar 15 1999 - 14:48:26 NZDT

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