Why does ypcat show incomplete info?
You might find that when you do a ypcat of a map, some of the info is missing, for example: # ypcat netmasks.byaddr 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 In this case, you should run ypcat with the -k option, which also shows you the column that is being indexed off of: # ypcat -k netmasks.byaddr 150.101 255.255.255.0 150.102 255.255.255.0 Q: After I add an entry to a source file and run a make I don’t see it in the output of ypcat? A: NIS maps are not guaranteed to list the information in the same order as it is in your source files due to the dbm format. Some other things to be sure of is that you 1) made the change on your NIS master and not on a slave machine (see next paragraph), 2) you made the change to the source file that your NIS Makefile points to and not some other local copy, and 3) the yppush or ypxfr completed in order to give the slave server a new copy of the map. ypwhich -m on any machine in the same domain should always report the same master as owning the map. If you have any
