Linux-Networking Digest #131, Volume #11 Wed, 12 May 99 17:13:58 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help: NFS/mount params ineffective ("Stefan Monnier "
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Re: I have a PCI NE200 card but...... ("Bart Vandenbroucke")
Re: Connect Linux box with Win95 using TCP/IP (Graeme Wood)
Re: Kingston PCI 10/100 and Tulip problems (Rod Smith)
*easy* question re: ipchains, tcp_wrappers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: valid host names in dns tables ("Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now!")
Re: RedHat notebook config as server & client? (TS Stahl)
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (Richard Birchall)
Re: Samba and printing. ("David Murray")
Re: Win98 And Samba (Valentin Abramov)
Re: ethernet card configuration problems.. ("Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now!")
Re: pppd hangs up the modem when no data activity ("David Murray")
Linux installation on Generic box ("Alex Balboa (HPTi|crimmins) " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
How to log out going connections with ip masquerading? ("Loki")
Re: Linux PC on a Windows NT network. Simple question(?) ("David Murray")
Re: Tape Backup software (Johannes Niess)
Getting a dial-up ppp going (J Knight)
Loopback at startup (Andrew Westhead)
ethernet problem ("������� �������")
Re: automount and nis yet again (Larry Williamson)
Re: nis auto home mounting (Larry Williamson)
ypbind takes too long at boot and therefore autofs fails (Larry Williamson)
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From: "Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: NFS/mount params ineffective
Date: 12 May 1999 13:30:55 -0400
>>>>> "deuber" == deuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> connected to the server. So, I was trying to manipulate the timeout
> period and force RPC to not give up so soon....
My understanding is that the options you're using apply the NFS protocol
while the problem you're talking about apply to the MOUNT protocol.
> ??? Maybe I cannot do what I'm trying to do?
You can of course do it.
Looking at the Solaris manpage and hoping that Linux uses the same
names for the same functionality:
bg|fg If the first attempt fails, retry in the
background, or, in the foreground. The
default is fg.
retry=n The number of times to retry the mount
operation. The default is 10000.
maybe retry=0 will loop for ever ?
But even if this doesn't work, you can still do it with something like:
until mount <mntopts>; do sleep 10; done
Finally, as long as your boot-up scripts don't depend on the NFS server being
up, I'd recommend the use of an automounter since it will then try the mount
each time the mount point is accessed.
Stefan
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From: "Bart Vandenbroucke" <bart.vandenbroucke(no@sp@m)pandora.be>
Subject: Re: I have a PCI NE200 card but......
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:50:27 +0200
Hi,
I have the same poblem, only the other card is a 3com nic.
--
groeten,
bart.vandenbroucke(no sp@m)pandora.be
ICQ : 35699748
John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
7hbprk$sd2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi.
>
> I've already posted a message yesterday on this but I wanted to have some
> points clarified.
> I wanted linux to probe for both an ISA NE2000 and a PCI NE2000
>
> I've been told to enter those parameters at the boot prompt:
>
> ether=IRQ,IO,eth0 ether=IRQ,IO,eth1
>
> The only little problem that I'm facing is that I'm using an UMSDOS system
> (Linux is on a W95 partition) and I use Loadlin to boot the kernel. Is
there
> a way to add extra parameters to the loadlin command line so that my PCI
and
> ISA cards work fine?
>
> My isa card is assigned to eth0 by this line in /etc/rc.dr/c.modules:
>
> /sbin/modprobe ne 0x240
>
> My pci card is detected by my linux system when I make a:
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> But how to make linux point to this ethernet PCI card as eth1? Could
someone
> help me? please?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> John Smith
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graeme Wood)
Subject: Re: Connect Linux box with Win95 using TCP/IP
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:26:13 GMT
Hi list,
to get two machines to talk to each other I just programmed up
tcp/ip on either as if they were to be plugged in normally to the network
and then just joined the two pc with a cross-over cable...
Et voila...
G
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Kingston PCI 10/100 and Tulip problems
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:11:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Toby Field) writes:
> Is there any way to patch the boot
> disk with the updated driver so I can make this work? If I am talking
> nonsense just tell me to go away ;-) Thanks in advance for any help
> anyone can offer me.
Yes. I've got a few notes about this on a web page that's mostly devoted
to creating a Red Hat 5.0 CD that supported Joliet. (This is no longer an
issue, and the RH 6.0 install floppy is likely a bit different, but my web
page may yet give you enough clues to get a working install floppy.) It's
at:
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/rhjol-technical.html
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: *easy* question re: ipchains, tcp_wrappers
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:53:28 GMT
I was wondering...
Running RH6, using TCP_wrappers along with abacus sentry. This will
show people port scanning that we have lots of open ports until they
try to connect...*grin*
I'd also like to implement regular ipchains rules in case sentry goes
down..(should I have it on anyway?)
I take it the wrappers are referred to first? When do ipchains rules
get referred to?
I suppose I should be able to do all I want with wrappers but..anybody
care to help with some insight?
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From: "Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: valid host names in dns tables
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:35:51 -0700
Last i checked, it was a-z,0-9, and -, no underscore or other fun
characters!
Jamie
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On 12 May 1999, Aaron Baugher wrote:
> Date: 12 May 1999 07:38:40 -0500
> From: Aaron Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
> Subject: Re: valid host names in dns tables
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > I have a DNS server running Red Hat v5.2 with Bind v8. Are
> > underscores valid in hostnames? When I do an nslookup on a hostname
> > with an underscore in it I get an error.
>
> AFAIK, underscores are not valid. I unknowingly tried to register a
> domain with an underscore with Internic a few years ago, and it came
> back with a hyphen instead.
>
>
> Aaron
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> CGI, Perl, Java, and Linux/Unix Administration
>
>
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From: TS Stahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: RedHat notebook config as server & client?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:44:39 -0500
I'm glad it worked out for you. I am still a RH bigot, but if you like
easy installs, you have to try caldera openlinux 2.2. As long as you have
supported hardware, it is a sweet experience.
Happy computing
Daniel O'Neill wrote:
> Well, I installed Debian and got my PCMCIA ethernet card connected to
> another network very quickly. In the RedHat pcmcia network.opts
> script (I can't remember what directory they put it in) I had DHCP=y.
> No IP address, netmask, gateway assigned, since the DHCPD on the
> network I am connecting to should handle all that. However, this did
> not have any effect.
>
> Under Debian I immediately found /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and
> interestingly enough there was no "DHCP= " line in the script so I
> just added it and everything worked after that.
>
> I do not wish to start any domestic disputes or flaming wars, but at
> the same time I want to feel free to complain about a system which I
> could not get working, spent a long time wracking my brain on, and
> could find almost no documentation on. The only thing that I myself
> would consider to be an edge with RedHat is its installation process.
>
> Yes I am aware of the LDP. I have a copy of "Running Linux" sitting
> next to me all the time when I am working with Linux.
> If you read the section on networking there and then try to use that
> info to configure RedHat I think you will be very confused.
>
> I am grateful for your support and hopefully the next time I post to
> Usenet it will be via a Usenet client running under linux :-)
>
> Daniel
> Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Sec. 227,
> any and all unsolicited commercial E-mail sent to this address
> is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500
> US (per infraction). E-mailing denotes acceptance of these terms.
--
Scott Stahl
MIS Asst.
Illinois Housing Development Authority
401 N. Michigan Ave. Ste. 900
Chicago, IL 60611
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From: Richard Birchall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:42:02 GMT
Red Hat 6.0 replaced the old "dhcpcd" command with the new "pump"
command, which doesn't work with @Home (possibly other cable modem
services). It doesn't have the DHCP client identifier option.
dhcpcd is in the RPMS directory in the RH6 CD. Just install that as per
http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=472145004
Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wouter Liefting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm on RoadRunner in Syracuse, NY. DHCP worked just fine before
> > RH6.0. What's different now is that the information for resolv.conf
> > is _not_ allocated after receiving the dynamic IP and the lease. I
> > had to enter in the domain and nameserver lines manually. Once I
did
> > that, though, everything worked fine. There must be a way to fix
this,
> > though. On the very bright side, I've had no lockups. I'm using a
> > 3com 3c509b NIC (ISA) and the white Motorola CybrSurfr cable modem.
> >
> > Greg H.
>
> From the DHCP documentation I gather that dhcpcd actually stores the
DNS data
> it receives in /etc/dhcp/resolv.conf.
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba and printing.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:55:05 GMT
You're missing something here...
> 18 [printers]
> 19 path = /usr/spool/lp1
> 20 writable = no
> 21 public = yes
> 22 guest ok = yes
> 23 printable = yes
Try changing the path to /var/spool/samba or try something like this:
[printer1]
comment = public printer
path = /var/spool/lp
public = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
That's my $0.02
--DavidM
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Subject: Re: Win98 And Samba
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Valentin Abramov)
Date: 12 May 1999 19:24:42 GMT
In article <7h925m$p11$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>All,
>
>I have a Unix(freebsd) and a Win 98 machine that I am trying to network
>together to use the same internet connection and to be able to share
>files. I currently can telnet to the unix machine but not the unix to
>the 98 machine. Could anyone point me to a web page on how to setup up
>Samba to work with win 98. I am new at this so I need good directions.
>
Any Linux/Unix mashine has nearly 'automagically' running telnet server as
necessary tool. That's reason why you can telnet to Linux/Unix mashine. DOS/Win
based mashines haven't telnet server as default, so you can't telnet there in
any case (if there isn't specially running telnet server). If Win98 and Unix
mashines can ping each other, your tcp/ip is ok and problem is in software
(servers). About Samba: for me 'man samba' and docs in /usr/doc/samba-doc/ was
enogh to configure Samba server. I don't know, if freebsd has package
'samba-doc', but Debian Linux has.
Regards,
Valentin Abramov
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From: "Jamie Chamoulos -- Internet.Now!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card configuration problems..
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:20:30 -0700
Im not a red hat person, but always loaded ne module like so:
insmod ne io=0x300
(if your io is set to 300, it will find the IRQ, but you can also state
that if you like: insmod ne io=0x300 irq=10).
After you properly load and get the driver working right, you will want ot
fix your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/rc.d/rc.modules or wherever RH likes to
load modules. Its possible that you dont have a current ne module for that
kernel, are you getting any error messages at boottime? check
/var/adm/messages and see if your modules are correctly loading.
Another thought, if your using ne2000 compatable NICs, why not compile it
into the kernel?
Jamie
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Internet.Now!
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On Wed, 12 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:09:43 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
> Subject: ethernet card configuration problems..
>
> Hi,
>
> I was running RH 5.0 and had no problems autoprobing for my ethernet
> card (an NE2000 compatible). RH 5.2, however won't find the card. I've
> tried passing it the "ether=11,0x280,0,0,eth0" through LILO, no luck.
> During boot up it says it's delaying eth0 initialization. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>
>
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd hangs up the modem when no data activity
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:56:46 GMT
I would be willing to bed 50 to 1 that it is your ISP hanging up due to
inactivity, not your Linux box. Most ISPs do this to prevent people from
logging on and staying there for hours if they aren't doing anything.
If it didn't happen when logged in under Windows98 then there is probably
a reason like your Win98 computer was doing something that might not be
getting relayed through now that used to (which was keeping the line alive)
Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Does anyone know where i should look or what i should put where to stop
the
> pppd from hanging up the modem when no data is being transmitted.. i've
> setup the pppd and ip masquerading as per the howto's.. i'm sure its this
> because if i set my win98 pc to poll my mail box it keeps the line up.
> thanks..
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From: "Alex Balboa (HPTi|crimmins) <balboa>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux installation on Generic box
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:51:51 GMT
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I am currently trying to install Redhat 5.2 Linux on the following
system configuration:
System board brand: Tyan ATX S16820 Tahoe 2 ATX (Pentium II PCI ATX)
CPU: Pentium II 266 MHZ (dual) with 512 K of cache)
Memory: 512 MB EDO (GENERIC)
Floppy 3.5" 1.44MB FDD
Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda ST19171W (SCSI:1 drive at 4 GB and 6
additional ones at 9.1 GB)
CDROM: Toshiba XM-5701TA (12-Speed Fast SCSI2)
Tape Drive: HP C5133A
Network Card: Intel EtherExpress Pro (32Bit PCI 10/100 BT)
Video Card: Matrox Millenium (8MB)
Sound Card: Creative Lab SB AWE 64 Gold (ISA 20 Bit 4 MB)
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec (2 of them) model AHA 2940 U/UW
Zip drive: IOmega 100MB SCSI
JAZ drive: IOmega 1GB SCSI
PCMCIA card reader: ANTEC DESCARTES 761345-64113
I was wondering if some one has installed Redhat 5.2 Linux on such a
system and, if so,
please advise on any special procedures or drivers for any of the above
components that I would need.
Thank you in advance (please forward your replies to the newsgroup and
my email)
Sincerely,
Alex Balboa
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High Performance Technologies, Inc. Aberdeen, MD 21001-1734
Integrated Modeling and Testing Phone: 1-410-297-8567
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<br>Memory: 512 MB EDO (GENERIC)
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<br>Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda ST19171W (SCSI:1 drive at 4 GB and 6
additional ones at 9.1 GB)
<br>CDROM: Toshiba XM-5701TA (12-Speed Fast SCSI2)
<br>Tape Drive: HP C5133A
<br>Network Card: Intel EtherExpress Pro (32Bit PCI 10/100 BT)
<br>Video Card: Matrox Millenium (8MB)
<br>Sound Card: Creative Lab SB AWE 64 Gold (ISA 20 Bit 4 MB)
<br>SCSI Adapter: Adaptec (2 of them) model AHA 2940 U/UW
<br>Zip drive: IOmega 100MB SCSI
<br>JAZ drive: IOmega 1GB SCSI
<br>PCMCIA card reader: ANTEC DESCARTES 761345-64113
<p>I was wondering if some one has installed Redhat 5.2 Linux on such a
system and, if so,
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components that I would need.
<br>Thank you in advance (please forward your replies to the newsgroup
and my email)
<br>Sincerely,
<br>Alex Balboa
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High Performance Technologies, Inc. Aberdeen, MD 21001-1734
Integrated Modeling and Testing Phone: 1-410-297-8567
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From: "Loki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to log out going connections with ip masquerading?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:05:03 -0400
I'd really like to know how to do this, if someone could point me to a good
readme I'd be very thankful.
Loki
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux PC on a Windows NT network. Simple question(?)
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:53:09 GMT
Well, if you buy RedHat (and possible other distributions) it automatically
asks you to setup printers and such.. You simply tell it that the printer
is an SMB printer (Windows shared) and tell it the name or IP address of
the computer that it is connected to.. Filesharing is a bit more difficult
but one thing that will help is if you download a new freeware program
called "LinNeighborhood" which gives you the ability to graphically browse
a windows network and mount shares.. it is still more complicated than
using Windows to share with other Windows boxes, but it makes life easier.
Also, once you get it installed the first thing you need to do is edit a
file called /etc/smb.conf and setup your workgroup/domain names and stuff
like that!
> Step 1 is to place a Linux PC onto a Windows NT network in which the
> other client PCs run Win95. The Linux PC, of course, would like to use
> printers, modems, etc. of the network, as well as access to some data
> files on the server.
>
> Instead of spinning my wheels, can anyone point me in the right direction
> as to books or other resources I could use to research this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Niess)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Tape Backup software
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:43:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (IEEE Project) wrote:
>You may also consider cpio which is a standard Unix command.
>You can also use no-rewind tape device file if you want to write multiple
>sessions in a single tape.
>Wolfgang Ganzert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: For the KDE window environment there is the kdat program. It allows
>: multiple tars on a single tape and has a GUI which is easy to use. On my
>: systems it does not run stable but maybe this is because I'm using KDE
>: 1.0. Maybe with 1.1 the problem is fixed, I don't known.
>: Wolfgang
>: Ron Flory wrote:
>: > > I'm looking for a very easy & good DAT tape backup software.
>: > > Any idea?
>: >
>: > depends how fancy it needs to be. 'cat file.tar.gz > /dev/st0' works
>: > fine for me.
>: >
>: > ron
Amanda is my backup program of choice. It is GPL, with a very helpfull
mailing list, it handles dozends of client computers with a lot of
operating systems (Linux, other Unixes, Windows via Samba), it
distributes your load (one tape might contain a level 0 from one disk
and a level 2 from another), output of a selfcheck is mailed and it
handles tape changers. And Idiot can handle it after setup.
Volunteers for writing a GUI will get a lot of help.
I don't know about a missing feature and it is very reliable. Why
spend money for a backup program with less features?
You can find eveything about it at www.amanda.org
Johannes Niess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Knight)
Subject: Getting a dial-up ppp going
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:34:43 GMT
I'm trying to get a tcp/ip ppp dial-up connection going. I've got my
scripts working, but whenever I run them I first get a starting
message and then I get this:
pppd[281]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
pppd[281]: Exit
and nothing happens after that. I never hear the modem start or
anything. I have used minicom to set the following parameters:
local command echo on
hardware flow control on
software flow control off
I'm not sure what to do from here. Can anyone help?
...Jason
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From: Andrew Westhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Loopback at startup
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:59:59 +0000
Hi, I like to enable the loopback interface at boot time as I use a
number of programs that require the running of rsh on my machine. I can
use loopback after typing the usual ifconfig ......... etc but this is
not really convenient - which files do I need to edit to get it started
at boot time?
Thanks in advance for advice.
Andrew Westhead
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From: "������� �������" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ethernet problem
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:02:09 +0300
Help every one
Recently i have configured a Linux Box with two Micronet (rtl8139) netcards
This box works as a Forwarding machine with IP MSQ, having my intranet
straight to internet via LAN
Also the same box works as DNS, PROXY (squid), WWW (Apache) & Samba
server
Everything works fine without any serious problems, but one annoying syptom:
some times without any particular reason the macine gives the following
message
<< ethernet transmit timeout on eth0 (or) eth1 >>....
when this occurs everything that has to do with networking in my intranet
stops until i rebbot the box
I have alredy try to work the box stopping all the above srvices one by one
but still nothing happened
Can anybody give me a direction or a solution that has to do with my
problem?
Thanks in advance
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From: Larry Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: automount and nis yet again
Date: 12 May 1999 16:46:20 -0400
Morgan Fruchtnicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know this is a common question, but I can't find an answer! :(
> I'm trying to get automount to work with an nis map.
> nis servers and solaris and the clients are all aix and linux.
> Nis works great, all the maps are available, but the problem for
> me and apparently everyone else is that automount doesn't work
> with the nis provided map. I have gotten linux automounter to
> sieze control of /home (lost my home dir in the process. doh!)
> but it still doesn't mount the directories! Any help anyone
> can give would be greatly appreciated.
Most likely is you still have "/home /etc/auto.home listed in your
/etc/auto.master file. Comment this out.
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From: Larry Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nis auto home mounting
Date: 12 May 1999 16:44:41 -0400
William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have my linux box (redhat 6) in an nis domain and that seels to work great
> accounts work, mounting filesystems, etc..
>
> I cna't seem to figure out how to get home irectories to automount when a user
> logs in. right now it drops them in /
Almost certainly, the problem is your /etc/auto.master lists
/etc/auto.home for /home, comment this out.
If this was not the problem, then does "ypcat auto.home" show you what
you expect? if not you need to fix this.
Otherwise, I think we need more information.
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From: Larry Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ypbind takes too long at boot and therefore autofs fails
Date: 12 May 1999 16:51:55 -0400
RH 5.2 (with 2.2.2 kernel installed) PIII 500Mhz NIS client
Solaris 7, E3K NIS+ server
During boot, /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind run as rc5.d/S12ypbind. This
happens well before /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S61autofs. Yet, still ypbind has
not found our NIS server by the time autofs tries to start. Therefore
autofs gets only the files based maps in /etc.
I get around this by adding this loop in ...rc5.d/ypbind
start)
echo -n "Binding to the NIS domain... "
daemon ypbind
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/ypbind
# add this looop to wait for ypbind to complete before autofs is
# run. Otherwise autofs gets only /etc/auto.master.
ypwhich
while [ $? -ne 0 ]
do
sleep 1
ypwhich
done
I find this loops runs about 3-6 times normally.
I have set an entry in /etc/yp.conf
domain mitra.com server nisserver.mitra.com
But this has not effect on the timing.
Any suggestions? I can live with my loop, but it is tedious to have
to add this to every new machine I install :-(
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