Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time - Solved

2013-01-30 Thread Joao Roscoe
Sorry but I came late to this discussion. If you are still open to experimenting then I have another one for you. In the /etc/network/interfaces file do you have the interface listed? Or is it left to NetworkManager? If it is listed is it listed as allow-hotplug eth0? Yes, listed,

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time - Solved

2012-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Joao Roscoe wrote: Using it with NIS/YP is not so common so I think it not unlikely that there is a bug related to it there. ... Try this experiment. At the last point in the /etc/init.d/nis startup script add a short sleep. That will give the daemons time to finish and get ready to

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time - Solved

2012-12-04 Thread Joao Roscoe
If the hardware isn't completely identical then it is reasonable to have differences in the parallel boot timings. Theoretically, the machines were identical, but I haven't inspected them to make sure. The fact was: timing to suceed binding to NIS server was quite different from one machine to