From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 12 11:07:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04477 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:07:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04355 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0ykYEB-0004lO-00; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:07:03 -0700 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:07:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Atipa cc: John Kenagy , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS client maintenance script In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Atipa wrote: > No, I agree. I do not have any "wheeled" accounts on NIS (for that reason, > and security), but if NIS authentication is enabled (any +'s) in > /etc/master.passwd, and the domain is not bound, it _still_ takes 14 > minutes to su. I thought that was standard behavior; is my setup wrong > somehow? It is standard broken behaviour. The FreeBSD yplib needs fixing, as delays for local accounts is completely unnecessary. It also means that YP is being referred to more often than necessary, meaning that there is some (albeit, perhaps very small) unnecessary YP load even when YP is working normally. > > > If no network services are available, your users will go away period, > > > unless they are somehow cached (eg slave server). > > > > For example, it is better that e-mail be delayed until YP is back up, > > rather than to bounce all e-mail as "user unknown" while YP is down. > > How would having +'s in your /etc/master.passwd postpone mail delivery? I Because YP calls take so long, that mail times out, at which point it is retried later. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message