Quoth Seann Dorand on Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:55:02PM -0700:
> I'm having the same issue with ldap/client not coming up on boot.  We
> use a DNS based sysidcfg file as well.  Who truly uses one
> nameservice?  It's probably safe to say most sites use ldap and/or nis
> for users, etc in conjunction with DNS for hosts.

I recommend that you ask install-discuss what the plan for improving
this is.

> I've never really been able to get a sysidcfg to work with LDAP, seems
> like you  have to add the host to ldap, etc and its just a big pain.

Fixing this is one of the goals of the Duckwater project.  See
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/duckwater .

> I haven't found an elegant solution to this yet but I'm getting there.
> I do like the SMF a lot but the learning curve is steep.  Right now
> I'm having fun developing our own manifests for the netbackup
> clients...  which by the way is tcpwrapped since wrappers are on by
> default in 10... that was killing me for awhile.

What would have helped here?  Better documentation?


David

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