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Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9689.0. "can't update NIS Map database by XIsso" by TKTVFS::KONDOH_S (Shinichi Kondo, Yokohama Japan) Wed Apr 30 1997 23:49

Hi,

We are experiencing the following problem with Enhanced security and NIS 
environments on our customer site.

When we performed the function which is "Account Modify" for NIS users using 
by /usr/tcb/bin/XIsso on NIS MASTER, the NIS MAP databases does not update.

Our operations:
We changed some account infomations,and applied to OK button. Then show the 
window that indicate updating the information. And some error messages does 
not apper on the X-display. But MAP databases was not updated.
/var/yp/<DOMAIN NAME>/prpasswd.pag , passwd.byname.pag ...
We kept this condition,and tried the following manual operations, 
then MAP databaces was updated.
	cd /var/yp
	make
the result, the modified information was reflected using XIsso.
It seems to update only /var/yp/src.

Is this normal operation ?
Any suggestion ,please. 

Regards,
Shinichi Kondo  MCS/Japan
 
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9689.1questionsNNTPD::&quot;[email protected]&quot;Ann MajeskeThu May 01 1997 11:598
Can you please respond to these questions:

1) what version of Digital UNIX is the customer using?

2) does the customer have any NIS slave servers, or just the master?

3) what patches does the customer have installed?
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9689.2more informationsTKTVFS::KONDOH_SShinichi Kondo, Yokohama JapanThu May 01 1997 21:4728
Thanks your quick responce.

>1) what version of Digital UNIX is the customer using?
>3) what patches does the customer have installed?

        [Software configuration]
        Digital UNIX V3.2G with patches of 02-Oct-1996 on guru.
        ASE V1.3 with patches of 25-Apr-1996 on guru.

        <PATCH ID list>
        OSF375-002        OSF375-350222     OSF375-350252     OSF375-370033
        OSF375-048        OSF375-350230     OSF375-350269     OSF375-370034
        OSF375-050        OSF375-350240     OSF375-360037     OSF375X-350019
        OSF375-052        OSF375-350244     OSF375-360049     OSF375X-350020
        OSF375-053        OSF375-350245     OSF375-360054     OSF375X-350023
        OSF375-350216     OSF375-350248
        ASE130-002        ASE130-003        ASE130-004        ASE130-005

>2) does the customer have any NIS slave servers, or just the master?

My customer have't NIS slave servers. He has NIS master & few clients.

Addition,We configured NIS failover on ASE environment. When one member is
master server,the other is client. Its work is fine. 


Regards,
Shinichi
9689.3Check for problems with ASENNTPD::&quot;[email protected]&quot;Ann MajeskeMon May 05 1997 14:034
The only thing that I can think of is that there might be a problem with
ASE.  Check out notes 4098, 7177, and 7328.  There is also a notes conference
for ASE referenced several places in this notes file, SMURF::ASE.
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9689.4TKTVFS::KONDOH_SShinichi Kondo, Yokohama JapanTue May 06 1997 05:4111
>The only thing that I can think of is that there might be a problem with
>ASE.  Check out notes 4098, 7177, and 7328.  There is also a notes conference
>for ASE referenced several places in this notes file, SMURF::ASE.

I had taken backup on the customer's system, then restore to the internal 
lab machine. I tried to  re-configure C2 & NIS that is standalone environment
(NOT ASE). I experienced same problem.
I don't think dependent ASE.

Thanks for any advice.
Shinichi.
9689.5NNTPD::&quot;[email protected]&quot;Ann MajeskeTue May 06 1997 12:0117
Your customer's problem is probably caused by something strange that they 
have done in their configuration.  Unfortunately, I don't have the time to
investigate this in more detail.  It could take hours searching through
their system configuration to find the problem, and I have other more
important
problems (customer system crashes) to work on.  So, unless you or someone else
out there can figure this out, your customer will just have to live with it
for now.  The GUI interfaces for Enhanced Security were completely re-written 
for V4.0, which means that your customer's problem may go away if they upgrade
to V4.0.  Your customer also has a workaround to the problem they are 
experiencing in V3.2G, so it shouldn't be too hard to live with.  You can also
work at understanding the problem better yourself to see if you can come up
with a solution.  I suggest that you look at the Security Manual for more
information about Enhanced Security and how it works with NIS (there is a
large
section in the manual about this). 
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9689.6recoveredTKTVFS::KONDOH_SShinichi Kondo, Yokohama JapanWed May 07 1997 11:099
Hi,
I just traced the cause of problem. 
When I had configured NIS,I created symbolic link for /var/yp/src.  
It was not exist "Makefile" file in the parent directory of the symbolic link.
The effect,XIsso could not perform "../make"

Thanks,
Shinichi