On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:42:27PM +0200, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote:
> Yes I did 'ypcat passwd' but the the few newly created users
> were not there. One user was added a day before and even
> his record was not there.
> 
> We tested adding a user today after the reboot yesterday,
> and the new user immediately appeared on the NIS client.
> I did not change any configurations, I just rebooted
> the machine. It is difficult to try to figure what might
> be the problem as I am not an ypbind expert... Is ypbind
> using any caching (that might cause the bug)?

No I don't think it uses a cache.
Do you have slave ypservers ? Maybe one of them doesn't get the update
properly, and after the reboot the NetBSD client binded to another yp server ?

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