On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:49:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 05), Ruslan Ermilov said: > > Is there anybody out there who successfully uses the rpc.ypxfrd(8) > > server to speed up distribution of NIS maps, either on 4.x or 5.x? > > I have trouble getting it to work. > > Seems to work for me, although it might be failing and falling back to > a regular ypxfr for all I know. If I run rpc.ypxfrd on the server, > then run chfn and change my name, lastcomm shows that rpc.ypxfrd forks > a couple times, and the client's map is updated. -current server, 4.1 > client. > If it falls back to a regular record-based transfer, as it does for me, it means it does not work:
# /usr/libexec/ypxfr -f passwd.byname ypxfr: call to rpc.ypxfrd failed: RPC: Timed out ypxfr: Exiting: Map successfully transferred Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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