Problems with NIS on RedHat Enterprise 5.3 system.

[Margaret Doll]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Barry Brimer wrote:

> Is there a firewall present?  SELinux?  If there is SELinux running,  
> run "getsebool -a | grep yp"
getsebool -a | grep yp
getsebool:  SELinux is disabled

> and make sure your booleans are set to allow the proper things.   
> What does your /etc/pam.d/system-auth say?  Has it been updated for  
> NIS?
system-auth contains

password    sufficient    pam_unix.so md5 shadow nis nullok  
try_first_pass use_authtok
>
>
> What kind of bug did you run into with system-config-network?

Component: system-config-network
Version: 1.3.99.12
Summary: TB0a0f70ae maindialog.py:602:hydrateProfiles:TypeError:  
sequence item not a string or unicode object

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/sbin/system-config-network-gui", line 167, in main
     window = mainDialog()
   File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/ 
maindialog.py", line 248, in __init__
     self.hydrate()
   File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/ 
maindialog.py", line 392, in hydrate
     self.hydrateProfiles()
   File "/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/ 
maindialog.py", line 602, in hydrateProfiles
     hclist.append([host.IP, host.Hostname,
TypeError: sequence item not a string or unicode object

Local variables in innermost frame:
profilelist: ProfileList.default.ActiveDevices.1=eth0
ProfileList.default.HostsList.1.Comment=# Do not remove the following  
line, or various programs
ProfileList.default.HostsList.1.isComment=true
ProfileList.default.HostsList.2.Comment=# that require network  
functionality will fail.
ProfileList.default.HostsList.2.isComment=true
ProfileList.default.HostsList.3.Comment=
ProfileList.default.HostsList.3.IP=127.0.0.1
ProfileList.default.HostsList.3.Hostname=localhost.localdomain
ProfileList.default.HostsList.3.AliasList.1=localhost
ProfileList.default.HostsList.4.Comment=#::1  localhost6.localdomain6  
localhost6
ProfileList.default.HostsList.4.isComment=true
ProfileList.default.HostsList.5.Comment=

...

>
>
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Margaret Doll wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Barry Brimer wrote:
>>
>>> Quoting Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>:
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>> From: Margaret Doll <Margaret_Doll at brown.edu>
>>>>> Date: March 16, 2009 4:10:23 PM EDT
>>>>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
>>>>> Subject: Problems with NIS on RedHat Enterprise 5.3  system.
>>>>> Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com
>>>>> I need documentation  on NIS client for an RH Enterprise 5.3  
>>>>> system.
>>>>> Also  please send any suggestions as to what we have   
>>>>> misconfigured
>>>>> on our client.
>>>>> We have a 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5xen system on which we are trying to
>>>>> configure NIS  client software.
>>>>> Our NIS server is a Solaris system running  SunOS 5.8.
>>> <snip>
>>> Did you use system-config-authentication so that all necessary  
>>> files would be
>>> modified, or did you modify files by hand?
>>
>> I modified by hand.    I tried to open the system-config-network on  
>> this particular system, but apparently there is a bug in the gui  
>> program.  I also like to modify the files by hand, so I can have a  
>> better understanding of the process.   We maintain various types of  
>> operating systems here.  Guis change with the systems, but the  
>> basic unix structure stays the same.
>>
>>
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