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