nisping question

[Peter Bunclark]

On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, John Aasen wrote:

> In the man pages for nisping it is stated that:
> nisping  should be used at frequent intervals (such as once a day) to
> checkpoint the NIS+  databaselog  files.   This  command can be added to the
> crontab(1) file.If the database  log  files  are  not  checkpointed, their
> sizes will continue to grow.
>
>
> On which machine(s) should nisping -C be added to the crontab?
>
> On the NIS+ servers, on only the master server or on all clients?
>
> John
Only do it in one place.  It pings the whole NIS+ service, ie master
and replica servers.  You might as well do it from the master server,
on the grounds that if it is down there's no point doing one, but if
everything else but the server is down, it still serves a purpose!

You will, of course, already have your nightly nisbackup command in
the root-server crontab...

Pete.