Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:09:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: cjclark@home.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <199902210309.WAA15912@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990220235901.asmodai@wxs.nl> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Feb 20, 99 11:59:01 pm"
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote,
> On 20-Feb-99 Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote,
> >> what could cause rpc.yppasswdd to `hang' at boot up? And with hang I
> >> mean it seems to need to time out on something.
> >
> > Is the machine a master server, slave server, or client?
>
> A server, master, else I wouldn't be running yppasswdd I guess ;)
Just making sure.
> FreeBSD daemon.ninth-circle.org 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #12: Sun
> Feb 14 19:24:39 CET 1999
> asmodai@daemon.ninth-circle.org:/work/FreeBSD/src/sys/compile/DAEMON i386
>
> [asmodai@daemon] (24) $ grep ^nis rc.conf
> nisdomainname="ninth-circle" # Set to NIS domain if using NIS (or NO).
> nis_client_enable="NO" # We're an NIS client (or NO).
> nis_client_flags="" # Flags to ypbind (if enabled).
The server is not a client to itself?
> nis_ypset_enable="NO" # Run ypset at boot time (or NO).
> nis_ypset_flags="" # Flags to ypset (if enabled).
> nis_server_enable="YES" # We're an NIS server (or NO).
> nis_server_flags="" # Flags to ypserv (if enabled).
> nis_ypxfrd_enable="NO" # Run rpc.ypxfrd at boot time (or NO).
> nis_ypxfrd_flags="" # Flags to rpc.ypxfrd (if enabled).
> nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES" # Run rpc.yppasswdd at boot time (or NO).
> nis_yppasswdd_flags="-t /var/yp/master.passwd -v" # Flags to rpc.yppasswdd (if enabled).
^^
This is good. Do you get any info? Perhaps I should have asked
initially, why do you think that yppasswdd is hanging in the
first place?
> So we also need an ll from /var/yp:
>
> [asmodai@daemon] (29) $ ll
> total 43
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 512 Feb 20 23:49 ./
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel - 512 Dec 30 23:18 ../
> 18 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 18126 Feb 16 20:23 Makefile
> 18 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 18126 Feb 15 02:29 Makefile.dist
> 2 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 1249 Feb 20 13:17 master.passwd
> 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Feb 20 13:17 ninth-circle/
> 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1064 Feb 20 13:17 passwd
> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 0 Feb 16 20:41 ypservers
>
> ypservers is empty since there's only one server,
Does the master need to have itself listed in ypservers?
> master.passwd is a
> changed version of the /etc one.
>
> All the NIS maps got created as they should I think. What still confuses me
> is that from the tutorials I managed to overview, some mention to add
> +::::::::: or +::: to the /var/yp/master.passwd and /etc/group files.
Those lines need to be added to /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group on
the _clients._
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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