On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:30, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > Remembet I have the NIS stopped. > > Then you need to either fix NIS or define the amanda user locally on the > server.
My experience has been that on linux, NIS (via ypbind) is unreliable and tends to crash, so I always put the amanda user in the local passwd file to make sure that backups don't fail even if ypbind craps out. I think part of my problem has been that I'm using SGI IRIX as NIS servers, and Linux as NIS clients, and something between them is not 100% compatible. If you really want to rely on NIS, I would suggest setting up some kind of a "watchdog" to restart ypbind if it fails. In fact, I think I am going to look into that option right now, it would fix some of the problems/complaints that I have had, like occasional problems with people not being able to login. -- Jonathan Dill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
