Re: [SAGE] NIS conniption fits - update

[John Rowan Littell <littejo@earlham.edu>]

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Well, I may never know what caused this, which irks me, being of a
slightly scientific bent.  But after I had done all that anyone had
suggested, it continued to happen today.  Since I need a functional
mail server more than I need answers, I replaced NIS on this host with
an rsync-based passwd and group distribution mechanism.  I'm now
taking the LDAP exports, pushing them to the server over rsync, and
then merging them with any local data -- essentially the same thing
that one gets with the +:::... of NIS.  It seems to work just fine,
and this way I know where I can look if something goes wrong -- I
wrote all the software (well, except rsync and the LDAP server... :-)

Thanks to all who suggested places to look.  If anyone needs
rsync-based scripts, let me know...

  --rowan

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John "Rowan" Littell
Systems Administrator
Earlham College Computing Services
http://www.earlham.edu/~littejo/
2004-01-23 13:34
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