swinstall

[Michael Elleby III_1]

After I've mounted the CD and started swinstall, instead of prompt me for the depot path, it give me a Select Target path, and when I enter /cdrom, I get the message:

"Could not contact host myserver. Make sure the hostname is correct."

I just recently renamed host and rebooted... Can't remember the solution for this problem, as I have run into it before..

Any suggestions?

Thanx.

Mike Elleby

[steven Burgess_2]

Have you tried set_parms_hostname?

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Steven-

The set_parms and reboot was what I did before the swinstall...

Thanx for the suggestion though..

Mike-

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Steven (and others who read my initial post)-

I figured it out. Apparently swinstall had a problem with NIS running on the server. After I stopped daemons from running, swinstall comes up fine..

I'll restart NIS after I finish installing software...

Mike Elleby

[Patrick Wallek]

Do you have an NIS map for hostnames? Did you change the name of your system in that map?

Also have a look at your /etc/nsswitch.conf file and see what order it looks for hostnames. I would almost bet that it was looking in NIS first and getting confused. If so, you might want to consider having it look in files first the NIS or DNS.

[Michael Elleby III_1]

Patrick-

Yep, something was awry in the NIS maps, and had to change nsswitch.conf to point to files first to correct the problem.

Mike Elleby

[Peter Kloetgen]

Hi Michael,

just a remark...

did you allready actualise NIS? It is possible that other services are using NIS as well and they would also be confused with two different host names in NIS and on your host-computer.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter