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Subject: conf/13775: multi-user boot may hang in NIS environment
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>Number:         13775
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       multi-user boot may hang in NIS environment
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 16 11:20:02 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mikhail Teterin
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Virtual Estates, Inc.
>Environment:

	In  our  setup  NIS  is  responsible  for  user,  group,
	services databases.

>Description:

	When the machine boots, /etc/rc is doing certain things,
	like chown, which fail/hang  since ypbind is not running
	yet.

	In particular,  things like chown (needs  user and group
	ids), mounting  NFS systems  (needs host  names), syslog
	(needs syslog service from services database).

>How-To-Repeat:

	In our environment, the /etc/services file consists only
	of a  single `+'. `+:::::::::'  follows the list  of the
	FreeBSD standard  "users". `+:::'  is the first  line of
	/etc/group.

	When such a setup boots,  one needs to press ^C and then
	start things like syslog manually.

>Fix:

	Probably, ypbind should go into network_pass1...

	A  workaround   is  to  put  the   syslog  service  into
	/etc/services. Change `chown  root:wheel' to `chown 0:0'
	in /etc/rc and put the NFS servers into /etc/hosts.

	This should not be needed...

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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