From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1 Description of problem: after adding a new user and recreating the NIS database ypcat shows the new user while getent passwd does not. After restarting ypserv getent works as expected Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ypserv-2.8-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. nisserver# useradd foo 2. nisserver# make -C /var/yp 3. nisclient# ypcat passed | grep foo foo:X:505: ... Actual Results: 4. nisclient# getent passwd | grep foo [no response] Expected Results: 4. nisclient# getent passwd | grep foo foo:X:505: ... Additional info: Workaround: service ypserv restart
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