finger trouble

[Alan Meyer_4]

what I've just encountered here at my location is a slave server who had a outdated mapfile. finger commands to machines bound to it yielded the ??? response. I re-pushed out the map files and the problem was resolved.

[Simon Page_1]

Some answers:

If I append the domain e.g. finger mcastan7@machine.company.com I get 'connection refused'.

A complete push of all maps made no difference.

ypwhich on the Tru64 machine gives the FQDN of the NIS master.

ypwhich on HP or Sun gives out FQDN slaves!

[Simon Page_1]

Hi Alan, how did you repush the mapfile?

[Alan Meyer_4]

yppush passwd.byname

[Alan Meyer_4]

from the master server.

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

What does this yield on output?

ypcat passwd | nawk -F: 'NF != 7 {print}'


Getting from the URL of
http://sunportal.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/summaries/2002-March/001090.html

QUOTE:
"I found one of the entries had seven "colons" rather than six . All entries after that were simply ignored by fingerd."

[Simon Page_1]

Well done Rick!

ypcat passwd | nawk -F: 'NF != 7 {print}'

was the route to the answer - there were 3 entries in the passwd file without the required number of fields.

Strange how Tru64 soldiers on, when other OE's fall by the wayside!

Going home now - will assign points tomorrow.

Many thanks to all.

[Simon Page_1]

Well done Alan - you had the answer some time back when you said "I also get that response if the NIS/passwd record is incomplete or in the incorrect format" but I wasn't prepared to check out 1300 lines! Rick came up with the awk check.

[Simon Page_1]

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