[wplug] NIS client setup on RH9

[Vanco, Donald]

Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> Hi list. I set up an NIS server and an NIS client on two RH machines.
> The client exhibits the following quite weird behavior:
> 
> + On boot time, it says:
> Setting NIS domain assoc                   [OK]
> Binding to the NIS domain                  [OK]
> Listening for an NIS domain server         [FAILED]
> 
> (the last check takes ~20 seconds, since it retries 20 times as per
> /etc/init.d/ypbind, line 45. 
> 
> + Now, after I boot, I can only login as root (the only account that
> has its information locally). If I issue the command
> /etc/init.d/ypbind start
> ...it INSTANTLY gives me successful output (three green OK's in a
> split second).
> 
> After that, I can login normally with my NIS-provided
> usernames/passwords. 
> 
> Anyone have any clue why /etc/init.d/ypbind is not working at boot
> time, but is working fine on manual execution?
> 
> The order in which the init script is called seems proper, it's called
> after networking and the portmapper have started.

	Well - that being said, you could always increment it's S number in
the runlevel of your choice and see if there are some background services
that, while they appear to be starting OK, are not ready for action when
ypbind fires....

Just a thought..

Don