Clients keeping old data

[John Aasen]

Thanks a lot for help with this problem. You pointed me in the right 
direction!

My main problem was that neither nisping or nisbackup was running. The NIS+ 
replica server was stuck and kept spewing out "rpc.nisd: unable to fork 
readonly listener process" to the syslog. ps showed that the rpc.nisd process 
was 1.5G! Somehow the machine didn't crash but was usable, but no NIS+ 
updates from the master was accepted.

The /var/nis/trans.log was large and nislog | head -4 showed that over 600 
entries were waiting to be commited to the database. Even more frightning was 
that the master rpc.nisd process was increasing in size and that nislog showd 
over 300 entries waiting to be commited. So the master would also stop 
serving NIS+ if the situation was not solved.

I based my solution on the description in 
http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/1999-05/msg00087.html.

I did a nisbackup on the server and nisrestore on the replica server and run 
nisping in the order suggested in the SunSolve Infodoc article ID 21041: 
General NIS+ Stabilization and Maintainence.

#nisping -C `domainname`.
#nisping -C groups_dir.`domainname`.
#nisping -C org_dir.`domainname`.

This sequence was also added to the crontab of the NIS+ master together with a 
nisbackup command. These commands are run each night and will hopefully keep 
the NIS+ server and replica in shape.

On Thursday 04 July 2002 11:44, Peter Bunclark wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, John Aasen wrote:
> > We are also having problems with our replica server. It does not work as
> > it On a Solaris box I get:
>
> ...snip...
>
> > Pinging replicas serving "<domain>" :
> > Master server is "<Master>".
> >         Last update occurred at Sun Jan 28 20:40:33 2001
> >
> > Replica server is "<Replica>".
> >         Unavailable.
>
> It looks like all your problems are with your replica, or at least, you
> must fix it before worrying about the clients.  Are you running ntp
> to keep all the times in sync?  Is rpc.nisd running on the replica?
>
> Pete.

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