Re: bug reporting?
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Kaare Hviid wrote:
1) Using a pure64 amd64 box (or alpha for that matter) as an NIS slave
with an i386 box as master _will_ work, albeit rpc.ypxfrd will complain.
Yes, I actually came to this same conclusion, after some more work. What
puzzles me is that _every_ time I start the nis server with the stock
/etc/init.d/nis script, be it manually or at boot time, the maps are
transferred anew! Perhaps, due to the fact that map files are not
identical to the ones on the master server, the nis slave server thinks
its maps are outdated and tries to refresh them every time it is started,
every time falling back to the enumerate mechanism, and thus every time
creating new files which are not identical to the ones on the master
server...
2) Avoid mixing architecture, OS, distro, implementation and version of
NIS servers in a production environment unless you actually find
pleasure in voodoo and the black magic of NIS/YP. (I obviously do :-))
Well, I do find some pleasure in a moderate use of voodoo and the black
magic of NIS/YP myself, but I do not have a choice. I will replace old
x86 computers in the cluster I administer with amd64 ones, gradually,
which means that for some time I will have to live with a mixed
environment. And I will have to do my best to ensure that 64bits machines
are used near their full potential (hence a 64bit system) but still
sacrificing as little functionality as possible (hence a full 32 bit
system in a chroot cage as well). Oh, and it should be as transparent as
possible to users, as well. I think I am going to need some psychiatric
help in the near future...
Bye
Giacomo
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