nis or automount issue

[Douglass A Anderson]

I am running Nis and I am starting to get the error on some servers. I think it is a nis or automount error.

mkdir: cannot create /h/: Function is not available.

HPUX11iV1 on server and client.

Please help.

[TTr · Accepted solution]

Where do you get this error? Is it in a log or email?

[Douglass A Anderson]

when a nis user logs in

[TTr]

Check the system and user profiles to see what gets executed during login and look for an mkdir command. Is /h/ the user's home directory as it appears in the password map? Why would mkdir be run on it? Unless I am missing something about automounter, there is a typo somehwere or one of the start up files got edited with the wrong command in them.

[Douglass A Anderson]

where are the start up scripts you mention. ?

[TTr]

It depends on the shell the users have; for korn/posix shells they are /etc/profile and /.profile. There could be other scripts that are called by these two.

[Douglass A Anderson]

after further checking it looks like the NIS master is not pushing out the netgroups.

how do I check this? is there an error log?

[TTr]

Why do you say that?
Look in your master server at /var/yp/ypserv.log.

[Douglass A Anderson]

root@ken26 # ypcat -x
Use "passwd" for map "passwd.byname"
Use "group" for map "group.byname"
Use "networks" for map "networks.byaddr"
Use "hosts" for map "hosts.byaddr"
Use "protocols" for map "protocols.bynumber"
Use "services" for map "services.byname"
Use "aliases" for map "mail.aliases"
Use "ethers" for map "ethers.byname"

[TTr]

Do you use netgroup NIS map? You probably don't need one. Is ther a /etc/netgroup file on the NIS master?

Did you check the /etc/profil and .profile files?