[wplug] NIS client setup on RH9

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Vanco, Donald wrote:

> Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> >>
> >> 	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....
> >
> > Tried it (bumped its S value to 91), but still no joy :-(
> >
> > This is really strange.
> 	Did you happen to look at the /etc/init.d script itself and 1)
> verify what it's default S & K values are and 2) making sure both S & K
> scripts were in place (sorry - not that familiar with YP to know if a K
> script even matters  /exists).
> 	I'd try it at S99z...... just make it dead last (but the stuff in
> the 90's is generally fairly innocuous UNLESS there's something in rc.local
> that is needed - it's generally S99)

Yep, checked that, didn't make any difference.

> 	Was there anything useful in the logs?

No, and I really wonder why ypbind has been set up so silently by ma-RH.

Anyway, I added /etc/init.d/ypbind to /etc/rc.local, so now it tries to
execute it a second time, which of course succeeds. Ugly hack, but I can
go home for the weekend :-)

Thanks for your suggestions!

-A