yp problem

[Dirk Grunwald]

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 at foobar.colorado.edu)