NIS Problems

[Ramesh_27]

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.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Ramesh,

do you use a NFS home directory server ?

Robert-Jan

[Ramesh_27]

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"

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

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

if so, try to change it to /tmp/

[Ramesh_27]

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

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

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.

[Victor Fridyev]

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

[Ramesh_27]

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

[Victor Fridyev]

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

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

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

[Suresh Patoria]

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

[Ramesh_27]

Still the same thing happens in the client side.