From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 22 2:41:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (mx1.Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De [134.2.12.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E5437B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:41:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (sams [134.2.12.50]) by mx1.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1B5439 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:41:33 +0200 (MST) Received: (from sperber@localhost) by informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02782; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:41:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sperber) To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script References: From: sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) Date: 22 Sep 2000 11:41:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: Max Khon's message of "Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:28:20 +0700 (NSS)" Message-ID: Lines: 27 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.2 (Nike) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Max" == Max Khon writes: Max> hi, there! Max> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> > We have a similar problem with the combination of NIS and ipfw. The details >> > (and a patch) are in conf/18521: >> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18521 - nobody has touched it >> > since its submission in May. >> >> I've never used NIS, but isn't this either a bug/missing feature >> in NIS or a misconfiguaration on your part? >> >> Shouldn't NIS have a "first found" option so that root:wheel doesn't >> need NIS resolution? Max> nope. getpwnam("root") always tries to find "root" in NIS maps Max> (and fails after a quite long delay miserably if for example NIS server is Max> unreachable) even if root:wheel exists in local passwd/group files. This doesn't happen here, at least not under 4.0-RELEASE. What's your /etc/passwd look like? -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message