yppush

YPPUSH(8)                      Reference Manual                      YPPUSH(8)



NAME
       yppush - force propagation of changed NIS databases

SYNOPSIS
       /usr/sbin/yppush  [ -d domain ] [ -t timeout ] [ -p # parallel jobs ] [
       -h host ] [ -v ] mapname ...


DESCRIPTION
       yppush copies updated NIS databases  (or  maps)  from  the  master  NIS
       server  to  the  slave  servers within a NIS domain. It is normally run
       only on the NIS master by /var/yp/Makefile after the  master  databases
       are  changed.   /var/yp/Makefile does not invoke yppush by default, the
       NOPUSH=true line must be commented out.
       yppush first constructs a list of NIS slave servers by reading the  NIS
       map  ypservers  within  the  domain.   A destination host (or a list of
       hosts with multiple -h commands) can also be specified on  the  command
       line.   A  "transfer  map"  request  is  sent to the NIS serger at each
       slave, along with the information needed by the transfer agent ypxfr(8)
       to  callback to yppush, which may be printed the result to stderr. Mes-
       sages are also printed when a transfer is not  possible;  for  instance
       when the request message is undeliverable.

OPTIONS
       -d domain
              Specify  a  particular  domain. The NIS domain of the local host
              system is used by default. If the local host's  domain  name  is
              not set, the domain name must be specified with this flag.

       -t timeout
              The  timeout flag is used to specify a timeout value in seconds.
              This timeout controls how long yppush will wait for  a  response
              from a slave server before sending a map transfer request to the
              next slave server in the list.  By default, yppush will wait  90
              seconds. For big maps, this is not long enough.

       -p # parallel jobs
              yppush  normally  performs  transfers  serially, meaning that it
              will send a map transfer request to one slave  server  and  then
              wait  for  it  to  respond  before sending the next map transfer
              request to the next slave  server.  In  environments  with  many
              slaves,  it  is more efficient to initiate several map transfers
              at once so that the transfers can take place in parallel.

       -h host
              The host flag can be used to transfer a map to a  user-specified
              machine or group of machines instead of the list of servers con-
              tained in the ypservers map. A list of hosts can be specified by
              using  multiple  instances  of  the  -h  flag.  -v Verbose mode:
              causes yppush to print debugging messages as it runs. Note spec-
              ifying this flag twice makes yppush even more verbose.


SEE ALSO
       domainname(1), ypserv(8), ypxfr(8)


BUGS
       The  mechanism  for  transferring  NIS maps in NIS v1 is different that
       that in NIS version 2. This version of yppush has support for transfer-
       ring maps to NIS v2 systems only.


AUTHOR
       Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>



YP Server                         August 2002                        YPPUSH(8)