topic Re: NIS Problems in Operating System - HP-UX

NIS Problems

Ramesh_27 — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:13:31 GMT

Hi

I have a NIS Master server which is running HP-UX 11.00. When ever a user tries to login to that server it stops for a while after taking the password.

login: rajanr
Password:
Unable to change directory to "/home/rajanr"
Logging in with home = "/".
Please wait...checking for disk quotas

Its stoppping without giving the shell prompt for 3 or 4 minutes.

Any help will be of great help.

Re: NIS Problems

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:21:07 GMT

Hi Ramesh,

do you use a NFS home directory server ?

Robert-Jan

Re: NIS Problems

Ramesh_27 — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:23:05 GMT

Yes...NFS Home server is also the same server but the home directory gets autmounted in the same box itself. Earlier it used to work fine even though it never logs me in to the home directory. But now it is getting struck after saying "Checking for disk qouta"

Re: NIS Problems

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:25:17 GMT

do the users have a HISTORY file in there $HOMEDIR ?

if so, try to change it to /tmp/

Re: NIS Problems

Ramesh_27 — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:27:02 GMT

How to change the User's history file to /tmp

Re: NIS Problems

Robert-Jan Goossens — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:34:47 GMT

go to a homedir of the user, and edit his .profile.

change
HISTFILE=${HOME}/.sh_history_`who am i|awk '{ print $1}'`
to
HISTFILE=/tmp/.sh_history_`who am i|awk '{ print $1}'`

# su - user
and check if you still have the same problems.

Re: NIS Problems

Victor Fridyev — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:40:30 GMT

Hi,

Try to do the following:
/sbin/init.d/nis.client stop
/sbin/init.d/nis.server stop
Check why your NFS client doesn't work. When NIS is stopped, it's much faster. Find and update in /etc/rc.config.d/namesvrs the following:
YPBIND_OPTIONS="-ypset"
YPSET_ADDR="IP of the server"
Run:
/sbin/init.d/nis.server start
/sbin/init.d/nis.client start

Read syslog.
BTW, in order to define history file, put into .profile
export HISTFILE=/tmp/$LOGNAME.hst

Re: NIS Problems

Ramesh_27 — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:11:06 GMT

I did all that.. But the same way it hangs for few minutes in " Checking for disk qouta"

Re: NIS Problems

Victor Fridyev — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:18:49 GMT

Hi,

Could you temporarily change homedir of the user to a local directory and after to a directory located on another NFS ? Does this resolve the problem ?

Could you run when connecting
tail -f /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

What messages do you see ?

HTH

Re: NIS Problems

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:42:33 GMT

Hi Ramesh,

Few thinks you could check, just to eliminate.

from the clients.
# nslookup server_name
# nslookup server_ipaddress

from the server same as above to the client.

Try to mount a nfs filesystem (cdrom) from the server to client, and check syslog for errors.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: NIS Problems

Suresh Patoria — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 04:14:45 GMT

Hi,

configure the automount or nfs mount on client side. You need to mount home directory of ur users.
otherwise users will not get the home directory.

Thanx

Re: NIS Problems

Ramesh_27 — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 07:42:29 GMT

Still the same thing happens in the client side.