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.
