RH9 + NIS, FC1 + ypbind

[Robert Citek]

On Monday, Mar 28, 2005, at 15:40 US/Central, akonstam at trinity.edu 
wrote:
> This is not really an answer to your question but we have a RH 9 NIS
> server and FC2 clients. Periodically ypserv just goes away. We have a
> crontab script that checks on the server if ypserv is running every
> minute or so and if it has stopped it restarts ypserv. It would be more
> of a pain but you could do a similar thing with ypbind on the clients.

Yes, we've also seen NIS (ypserv) go down on the RH9 machine.  I like 
your work-around of using crontab.  Although using crontab to restart 
the service doesn't address the root of the problem, it cures the 
symptom, which is good enough for our needs.

BTW, here's how I created a cron job to check on ypbind on FC1.  As 
root:

mkdir /etc/cron.minutely

cd /etc/cron.minutely

cat <<EOF > 0-ypbind.cron
#!/bin/bash
{ ps -p $(cat /var/run/ypbind.pid) ; } >& /dev/null || /sbin/service 
ypbind restart
exit 0
EOF

cd ..

cat <<EOF >> crontab
* * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.minutely
EOF

service crond restart

> We also could not find out why ypserv is stopping.

Bummer.  But it's somewhat comforting to see that I'm not the only one 
who has experienced this.

Regards,
- Robert
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