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ypcat hosts strange behaviour
When I run "ypcat hosts" command on a Solaris 2.4 system, all the entries appear as lower case. This only happens on this one system as far as I've seen so far. The Server is an AIX system.
Are you saying that some of the entries are in the database in UPPER case? Hostnames in Unix are case-insensitive, so why does it matter?
ASKER
It matters because I'm trying to add a network printer and the applications that use this printer have a standard of using upper case. Actually, I've worked around it by dissecting the script we have and manually adding the printer. However, I would still like to know why we are experiencing this. It works fine on other Solaris system that we have, even using the same OS.
This might sound funny, but are you sure you didn't log in
using capital characters?
kind regards,
Jos aka jos@and.nl
using capital characters?
kind regards,
Jos aka jos@and.nl
Are the hosts entered with capital letters in the hosts file
of the NIS server?
of the NIS server?
Are the hosts entered with capital letters in the hosts file
of the NIS server?
of the NIS server?
Are the hosts entered with capital letters in the hosts file
of the NIS server?
of the NIS server?
Are the hosts entered with capital letters in the hosts file
of the NIS server?
of the NIS server?
Are the hosts entered with capital letters in the hosts file
of the NIS server?
of the NIS server?
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ASKER
Helped to fix my problem, though I still don't really know what's causing it.
ASKER
Helped to fix my problem, though I still don't really know what's causing it.