NIS restart issue
Paul Michael Reilly
pmr at pajato.com
Wed Jul 5 21:42:05 UTC 2006
Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
> Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> > I recently had to enable NIS on my FC5 box. It was rather painful.
> > Nowhere near as direct and simple as it ought to be. I'm anxious to
> > hear how a Fedora guru would go about configuring and running NIS (as
> > a client) on a box that was not originally configured to do so.
> >
> > What I did was somehow discover that running authconfig-gtk would be a
> > good thing. This was after I yummed ypbind, configured /etc/ypconf
> > and started the ypbind service using the services gui tool, which then
> > proceeded to "hang" (no response other than the wait cursor for many,
> > many minutes). Then I disabled selinux and the firewall and still no
> > joy. Only after running authconfig-gtk did NIS startup. So
> > authconfig clearly knows to do something that I am not aware of. I
> > hate when that happens. :-)
> >
> > But then my system got rebooted and NIS did not restart even though
> > the ypbind service was configured to restart. So I need to figure out
> > what authconfig knows that I don't know and how to set things up to
> > have NIS running after a reboot.
>
> Do you have portmap running?
Yes it is running now and was running at startup but I did notice the
the authconfig program stopped and restarted portmap before it started
ypbind. Which is all to say that I still do not understand why ypbind
fails to start on a reboot. /var/log/messages does not indicate any
problem. But I can say that when I tried to run:
$ service ypbind start
it did not report any output which is highly unusual.
Something weird is going on ...
-pmr
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