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From: shani@taurus.BITNET (Oren Shani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Problems activating NameServer on 4.1.1
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 22 Mar 91 20:20:20 GMT
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We followed Ivan Auger's (ivan@ph.albany.edu) instructions as to
installing NS, which where posted to SunSpots, and we seem to have
problems:

Ivan writes:

>Also you must change in rc.local the ypserv call to ypserv -i...

Well, it works fine to run ypserv -i AFTER boot (and after killing the
already running one, of course), the thing is, that in rc.local ypserv is
activated with the undocumented option -a, and won't run properly if this
option is omitted, so what I want to know is: should I change the call to
'ypserv -a -i ...' or just 'ypserv -i', or what? and what is this -a
option, anyway?

Thanks in advance
O.S.