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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: yp problem
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Date: 25 Oct 89 21:52:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: francus@e2big.dec.com's message of 25 Oct 89 18:43:16 GMT


Another possible problem (one I have locally) is that your yp master
is a Sun workstation, and that they don't have all the service entries
in their /etc/services.

This brings up a good point; just as there is an /etc/svcorder that
applies to the hosts table, it would be nice if there was an ordering
spec to apply to e.g., services, etc. Perhaps /etc/svcorder should be
extended (and cached to avoid reparsing all the file) to something
like:

svcorder
---------
hosts		local bind yp
services	local
protocols 	yp
group	 	local
passwd	 	yp


or whatever. I don't have the power to change the YP master in my
domain.  However, I can set myself up as a slave YP server & just
generate my own local services files. This doesn't work out too well,
because if someone else uses me as a server, they don't get the Sun
services, unless I add them. It would be nice to avoid this kind of
headache.


Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder	(grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu)