Server sychronization after power fail and NIS

[jerry.feldman at algorithmics.com]

We have a number of servers in our office (RHEL 4 U6) and we don't have
a UPS. The problem is that when there is a power failure, some of the
servers fail to acquire the NIS bind, and ypbind exits. I can certainly
write a cron script to test if ypbind is running, and if not restart it,
but I would like to be able to have the ypbind daemon wait or retry. The
problem is one of timing:
Sep  4 06:29:00 asystem ypbind: Setting NIS domain name ypXXX:
succeeded
Sep  4 06:29:01 asystem ypbind: ypbind startup succeeded
Sep  4 06:29:24 asystem rpc.statd[20919]: Can't notify xx.xx.xx.xx,
giving up.
Sep  4 06:29:58 asystem ypbind: ypbind shutdown succeeded
Sep  4 06:29:58 asystem ypbind: attempting to contact yp server failed



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Jerry Feldman <Jerry.Feldman at algorithmics.com>
Algorithmics (US), Inc
Suite 2-400
275 Grove St.
Newton, MA 02466
617-663-5220
617-663-5391 (fax) 



 
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