[wplug] NIS client setup on RH9

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, John Harrold wrote:

> Sometime in August Alexandros Papadopoulos assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
> | 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?
>
> what does /etc/yp.conf look like?
>
> mine has a like like:
> domain nisdomainname broadcast

I have
domain <nisdomainname> server <nisservername>

If I change it to broadcast, it just takes a shorter time to die.

> i've also got the following line in /etc/sysconfig/network:
>
> NISDOMAIN=nisdomainname
>
>
> where 'nisdomainname' is our domain

Yup, have that.

The &^@#!@*(& thing works fine when invoked manually!

-A