This server impliments an RPC-based file transfer protocol that allows
an NIS slave server to copy a raw map database file from an NIS master.
The goal here is to speed up the transfer of very large maps. If you
have, for example, an NIS password database with 30,000 records in it,
it can take around 8 to 10 minutes to regenerate it (four hash databases
are created). As it stands now, ypxfr(8) transfers a map by sucking all
the records from ypserv(8) on the master using yp_all() and writing them
to a new database using the db(3) library. This adds up to another 8 to 10
minutes, per slave. With as the number of slaves increases, this latency
becomes prohibitive.
With rpc.ypxfrd, all the slave has to do is copy the already-built
hash database file from the master and move it into place. Even with a
multi-megabyte file, this reduces the master to slave transfer time
to well under a minute. (This is using TCP.)
Access restrictions are applied using the same mechanism as in ypserv:
you can control access using /var/yp/securenets, and the server will
not transmit the master.passwd.* maps unless the transfer request originates
on a reserved port.
Note: this server is based on my hastily contrived protocol and is _NOT_
compatible with Sun's protocol of the same name. It can't be compatible
for a couple of reasons. For one thing, Sun's protocol has not been published
anywhere that I know of. It is not included in any of the SunRPC source
distributions that I've been able to find. Second, Sun's NIS v2 code
uses old style ndbm maps while FreeBSD uses Berkeley DB. The file formats
are incompatible, so being able to transfer maps between FreeBSD and SunOS
hosts wouldn't do any good anyway. (You could always port the FreeBSD NIS
code to SunOS if you really wanted to do it. :)
(There's also the little fact that SunOS/SPARC is big-endian and FreeBSD/i386
is little-endian. Berkeley DB can handle byte ordering differences; ndbm
probably can't.)
- Add a 'pushpw' target that only yppushes the various passwd maps
and sends a YPPROC_CLEAR to the local ypserv. This will be used by
rpc.yppasswdd once I merge in the in-place update changes.
yp_access.c:
- Make the yp_access() function print RPC program and procedure numbers
that it doesn't know about in literal form. This will allow it to work
with other prgrams that it doesn't know about, like rpc.ypxfrd I'm going
to import shortly.
yp_dblookup.c:
- Take out the __inline keywords. They weren't really helping me anyway.
- Somehow I broke yp_next() when DB_CACHE wasn't #defined. Fix it.
- Also fix potential case where yp_next() might loop forever; make sure
it checks the return values of all the (dbp->seq)()/R_NEXT calls that
it does as well as comparing keys.
having a hosts.lpd(5) manpage and some references to it from
within lpd(8) might help here. Close PR docs/1277
Submitted by: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Fix some comments to reflect reality (in some cases I made changes
to code but not to the comments).
Change some instances of 'inline' to '__inline' to pacify
gcc -ansi -pedantic.
Use rcsid strings more consistently.
Make 'oldaddr' static in yp_access().
Use strcpy()/strcat() in yp_open_db_cache() instead of snprintf().
(Seems to be a little faster this way.)
in one place, leaking memory in another).
Add a facility to invoke subsystems directly by naming them on
sysinstall's command-line when running post-install. A replacement
for pkg_manage might, for example, be `/stand/sysinstall configPackages'
Fix bogon where upgrade shell was entered with tty modes spammed.
Fix bug with release name checking in ftp_strat. Turned a bunch of
bogus exit()s into proper calls to systemShutdown().
mount_* programs. While we're at it, collapse the four now-identical
mount programs for devfs, fdesc, kernfs, and procfs into links to
a new mount_std(8) which can mount any really generic filesystem
such as these when called with the appropriate argv[0].
Also, convert the mount programs to use sysexits.h.
add some logging functionality which I find very useful.
'set debug link' will record just link up/down and address assignments.
'set debug connect' will record the entire chat dialog
'set debug carrier' will record just chat lines including 'CARRIER'
(so that I can be sure I'm getting a 28.8 line).
There was a global change required to permit LogPrintf to take a bit
mask instead of a bit position value (to permit logging some events
on either of two flags, so that no change in 'set debug lcp' would
result from the code supporting 'link'. Thus the diffs are rather
long for such a small change. The man page is also touched.
Oh, and there was a slight syntax problem in route.c
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
orthogonal with the rest of the system (you can now use either -PPS or
-P PS), and makes the parser more intelligible. The only drawback is
that the old semantics for the -i flag in case a non-numeric argument
is following are no longer fully supported (only if -i is the very
last arg at all), since getopt(3) doesn't support the discticnction
between numeric and non-numeric arguments.
Make lpr also understand dashes as input pseudo filenames. This
finally makes lp(1) fully comply with Posix.2.
The removed files are no longer needed, they are actually labelled as
``Use only if you are not 4.4BSD''. (Yeah, the ol' crufty printcap.c
is really gone!)
Properly declare all external objects in files ending in .h, as
opposed to embed them into files ending in .c.
Make "selection bar" inverse video white-on-blue on color screens to avoid
it getting muddled up with popup dialogs.
Do disk selection in a more friendly fashion (for one thing, allow a
drive to be de-selected again if you change your mind).
Add a few strategic screen-saves to prevent corruption of screen contents
(thanks, Michael Elbel!).
the patch submitted by Philippe Charnier since he wasn't actually freeing
the resources early enough (an earlier return could be invoked, leaving
the resources still allocated), but he definitely pointed it out. Merci,
Philippe!
Suggested-By: Philippe Charnier <charnier@lirmm.fr>
really own (and which can end up being mangled later). The manifestation
of this bug is that the first attempt by a user to change their NIS password
succeeds, but all subsequent attempts fail. rpc.yppasswdd also logs
a message about not being able to find a file called
'/var/yp/<some garbage string>/master.passwd.' (Note that for some
bizarre reason, this doesn't happen with the malloc() from FreeBSD 2.1.0.
I suppose this means we can chalk up another victory for phkmalloc. :)
This bug only occurs if you use the -m flag with rpc.yppasswdd.
Fix this by copying the domain name to a static buffer and returning
a pointer to that instead.
Reported by: Jian-Da Li (jdli@csie.nctu.edu.tw)
