Re: NIS problems

1997-10-24 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Bao C. Ha wrote: I have the plus entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the client, not in the master. /etc/passwd +:* ^-- This is your problem. You must remove the asterisk, since it will overwrite the pw_passwd entry from NIS (this is unlike SunOS). A

Re: adduser and NIS

1997-08-14 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: It's unlikely this will be fixed. I've noticed that something has to be a pretty serious bug to be put in 1.3 now. I think (hope) that libc6 uses the more modern /etc/nsswitch.conf rather than putting weird entries into /etc/passwd, group, etc. to

Re: Any AMD users ? troubles with direct mount

1997-07-15 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On 15 Jul 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Oliver Landsmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any hints or maps for me ? Here are my maps: amd.home -cache:=inc /cad amd.direct -type:=direct [...] Just insert a -- before $AMDARGS in /etc/init.d/amd, the line should look remotely like this one: eval

Re: Ypbind problem

1997-06-23 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sami Laine wrote: I have a small problem with ypbind. Master NIS server is running at 192.168.1.100 (network 192.168.96/255.255.255.224) and client machine is at 192.168.1.37 (network 192.168.1.32/255.255.255.224). When I start ypbind it tries to find out master server

Re: NIS documentation wrong?

1997-03-05 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: Hi. It the nis documentation it says I can + and - users in the passwd file (I take it that it should be on the fly and it used to work with debian 0.93 in this case...) - however I can't seem to do this. The following two lines are in my

Re: Weird NFS/automounter problem.

1996-11-11 Thread Swen Thuemmler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Stan Brown wrote: I have set my Debian Linux box up with the sutmounter so that I can access all the machines on my local network. After I boot the machine, all this works fine. I can change directory to /net(name_of_machine) and

Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet

1996-10-22 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: [...] ypbind checks that the NIS server is still there every minute (the period in the old version. The new man page just says periodically). The man page doesn't show an option to override this, so I may just put one in myself. Do you see any

Re: Does Linux NIS needs plus-entries?

1996-10-22 Thread Swen Thuemmler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: I seem to faintly remember someone saying on this list that Linux NIS doesn't need plus-entries in /etc/passwd and friends... Is that really true? Because the latest nis package still says: No, this is wrong. It

Re: argh, NIS!

1996-10-09 Thread Swen Thuemmler
On 26 Sep 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Nope, that doesn't work. I replaced ypbind-2.99 with a hacked version of the BSD ypbind. The Linux ypbind-2.99 tends to die when it wants to switch servers, which is a problem if you have more then one NIS server and the one you're currently