On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 13:02 -0800, Stephen Hahn wrote: > * Dan Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-11-12 20:46]: > > I have to believe there's more to it than that; surely I have to svcadm as > > Milan notes, and then I have to do some > > selection of domain, and potentially servers, etc. I recall some nonsense > > about manually creating directories in /var/yp, etc. that NIS experts just > > rattle off, but that I've never done manually. > > ypinit -c will ask you the questions, set the appropriate files, > create directories, and enable services. (Turning a NIS client with an > explicit list of servers into a broadcast client requires the fiddling > you mention.)
Minor nit: Actually, ypinit -c won't run until you've set the default NIS domain for the system by running "domainname <bla>" and populating the /etc/defaultdomain file. In addition to that, if what you want is to simply broadcast for a local server (which is probably the safest way to run a NIS client given that IT keeps changing the IP addresses and/or names of the NIS servers on a daily basis), ypinit won't let you do that. You need to set your domainname as above, create an empty /var/yp/binding/<domainname> directory, and "svcadm enable nis/client". This is a mess, and one that will hopefully be remedied in NWAM Phase 1. -Seb _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
