ypxfr can't easily be reduced down to one file like yppush because it
needs to do certain special things (such as binding to a specific
machine (the NIS master)) which the yp_*() functions in libc don't
allow.
that ypxfr is supposed to log messages to /var/yp/ypxfr.log if it exists,
using syslog() makes more sense, especially since ypserv does the same
thing already. Try to use stderr by default, and use syslog() if stderr
is not a tty.
Also update the man page to reflect this change.
NIS maps (get rid of extraneous slash a la /var/yp//domainname).
Have ypxfr log all output to /var/yp/ypxfr.log if stdin is not a
tty. This should allow logging to be done when ypxfr is called from
inside ypserv in response to a yppush request.
Update man page to reflect the change (and fix a typo).
This is a ported/modified version of the ypxfr program from the yps-0.21
package from the NYS project. This program is normally invoked by ypserv
when it receives a yppush command from an NIS master. It can also be
run from the command line to grab copies of maps when initializing a
slave server.
This program has been hacked in the following ways:
- rpcgen'ed new yp_xdr.c, yp_svc.c and yp_clnt.c files. The old ones were
rather grody.
- Changed certain function names (prefended a _ to them) to avoid conflicts
with certain functions lurking within libc. One major problem here is
that ypxfr needs to bind to a YP master in order to work correctly,
but it can't use the _yp_bind function inside libc because that
function only lets you bind to a domain, not a specific host. Lots
of head scratching here.
- Converted from GDBM to DB at gunpoint.
- Removed lots of really nasty looking DEBUG code to try to reduce clutter.
- Incorporated some of the library code supplied with yps-0.21 on which
ypxfr was dependent.
This program still needs to be cleaned up just as a matter of principle:
I get all icky just looking at it sometimes.
