Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 23:32:58 -0600 (CST)
From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: questions freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Revisited "Re: NIS, no luck :-("
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980312232011.574C-100000@barnowl.roost.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980312180537.249D-100000@barnowl.roost.net>
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Well... I've got NIS running. If there is a response I seem to have missed, I've got some of my mail lost on one of three machines (as part of the adventure). Fatigue... Seems that I put the _entire_ host and domaine name in the file ypservers, _or_ it didn't like the syntax I used for the NIS token line (+). I fixed both and now it runs... but ypserv cores with a signal 11, maybe after failed DNS lookups? Other than one or two of those there is nothing in the message log. It does this after running 1 hour or so then in the second instance, about 2.5 hours. Mostly idle with fetchmail running in the background. I think this isn't so obvious. Any deas? Thanks again! John On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, John Kenagy wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, John Kenagy wrote: > > > > > Ok, I'm lost. > > > > > > I've been through the man pages, dogeared the Hal Stern book, > > > and only spent two evenings getting my network to run again while > > > trying to set up NIS. Between one server and one client, no less! > > > > DId you find *all* the man pages, esp. yp(8) and ypserv(8)? > > If its possible, the characters are faded from over use.;-) > I feel that I'm missing something crashingly obvious, but what? > > > > Since I cannot log on to any users in the map I think the append never > > > happens. What, exactly is the syntax of the "+" key usage in this > > > implementation. > > > > +::::::::, I think. Count my colons, it should correspond to the number > > of fields in /etc/passwd. > > In the book by Stern (O'Reilly), the fields are sometimes filled with > zero or, an asterisk, as in +:*::0:0:::: etc. for expanding group > and user IDs. This is also used to replace some of the fields in the > global map with local values. The asterisk is for password protection. > Are these syntactic conventions for the Sun platform or general to > FreeBSD also? > > Such an entry resulted in failures during login. User name went in ok, > but the password was never prompted for. I had to reboot in single > user to clear the system. > > Oh, well, I do this for the challenge, right? ...right? ...? > > Thanks again, John > > > Doug White | University of Oregon > > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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