Quoth Chad Mynhier on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:26:02AM -0400:
> Problem:  After a jumpstart using a flash archive, nis/server is
> enabled via site.xml, immediately disabled by
> svc:/system/sysidtool:system via these lines in
> /lib/svc/method/sysidtool-system:
> 
>         if [ -x /usr/sbin/svccfg ] ; then
>                 if [ -f /var/svc/profile/ns_none.xml ] ; then
>                         /usr/sbin/svccfg apply /var/svc/profile/ns_none.xml \
>                                 >/dev/null 2>&1
>                 fi
>         fi
> 
> and is not then re-enabled.  The same disable happens to nis/client,
> but nis/client is then re-enabled because
> /lib/svc/method/sysidtool-system does the following immediately
> afterwards:
...
> and /var/svc/profile/name_service.xml enables nis/client. 
> Unfortunately, it says nothing about nis/server.
> 
> So, how do you automatically enable nis/server if doing it via
> site.xml doesn't actually achieve what you would expect?

Looks like a bug to me.  I don't see why the ns_ profiles should mess
with anything other than name service clients.  I imagine ns_none.xml
disabling nis/server is a holdover from when nis/server & nis/client
were confused.


David

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