ypbind init script fails

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 19:06 -0400, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> I'm running FC6 on an eMachines laptop. I'm trying to configure NIS for 
> my growing home network. I seem to be having peculiar problems with the 
> ypbind init script. When I try to start the init script, it fails:
> 
> [root at proteus ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind start
> Starting NIS service:                                      [  OK  ]
> Binding  NIS service: .........                            [FAILED]
> Shutting down NIS service:                                 [  OK  ]
> 
> However, I find that if I run the init script with the restart option, 
> it will often, but not always, succeed:
> 
> [root at proteus run]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind restart
> Shutting down NIS service:                                 [FAILED]
> Starting NIS service:                                      [  OK  ]
> Binding  NIS service: ...                                  [  OK  ]
> 
> If I start ypbind by itself from a command line, it always succeeds. I 
> verify the successes and failures with ps, ypwhich and ypcat commands.
> 
> Anyone have a clue as to what is going on here? I've been looking for 
> some indication in some log, but haven't found any. The goal is to get 
> the init script to succeed on boot up. (The init script gives the same 
> messages at bootup as it does when run with "start" from the command
> line.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Andrew Robinson
Looks to me that ypbind is not being shut down properly when things shut
down. Look at the logs. Is there a complaint on starting ypbind thar a
lock file has been lying around when it shouldn't.

I would start with executing chkconfig ypbind off
Then execute: chkconfig --level 35 ypbind on


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