Dear Managers,
I have quoted below my original question. Unfortunately, the problem
remains unresolved, so we'll probably install Sol. 7 and be done with it.
Many thanks to Rick <Rick.Flower@trw.com>, who pointed out that
I should install the latest patches before attemting configuring the nis+
server. Unfortunately this didn't help, but he made a very good point:
I didn't install any patches on that machine for more than a year.
Best regards to everybody.
Vladimir
vladimir@math.uic.edu
>From vladimir@math.uic.edu Sun Feb 14 11:22:47 1999
>To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
>Subject: problems setting up NIS+ server
>
>Dear Managers,
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>I was setting up an NIS+ server on a machine running Solaris 2.5.1. I followed
>precisely all the directions in the answerbook. When I run nisserver command:
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> # /usr/lib/nis/nisserver -r -d domain.name.
> # <output from the script>
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>the script doesn't give any errors, except at the very end, when rpc.nispasswdd is
>restarted:
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>Feb 13 21:02:23 newton rpc.nispasswdd[5601]: nis_cast: couldn't find addresses
>Feb 13 21:02:23 newton rpc.nispasswdd[5601]: rpc.nispasswdd: NIS+ servers unreachable.
>Feb 13 21:02:23 newton rpc.nispasswdd[5601]: ... exiting ...
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>After that I can still populate NIS+ tables, niscat them, nisls -M works fine.
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>After reboot I get the following messages:
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>Feb 13 21:06:16 newton nis_cachemgr: updatePublic: open("/var/nis/NIS_SHARED_DIRCACHE"): No such file or directory
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>/* But the file is there! */
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>Feb 13 21:06:16 newton rpc.nispasswdd[5862]: nis_cast: couldn't find addresses
>Feb 13 21:06:17 newton rpc.nispasswdd[5862]: rpc.nispasswdd: NIS+ servers unreachable.
>Feb 13 21:06:17 newton rpc.nispasswdd[5862]: ... exiting ...
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>Again, I have no problem viewing the contents of the tables. Everything seems normal, except
>these messages. I need to move the NIS+ server soon, and I'd would definitely like
>to have rpc.nispasswdd running on it, becides the problems with this daemon are
>probably the consequence of something else. Any ideas? I will gladly provide more
>information if needed.
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>uname -a: SunOS newton.math.uic.edu 5.5.1 Generic_103640-17 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10
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>Thank you!
>
>Vladimir Egorin
>System Administrator, Department of Mathematics, UIC
>vladimir@math.uic.edu
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>PS A dejanews search yielded 2 messages with similar problems and no answers:-(
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