ypbind daemon hangs..

[someone_4]

Hey everyone I am working with nis .. not nis+ ..
on my nis server with i try to start up the nis client
/sbin/init.d/nis.client start
it is hanging on

starting up the Network Information Service
starting up the ypbind daemon

It just sit there. Any ideas of what I can check?

thanks
Richard

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Sounds like it's not binding to the server. If you open up another session and do a 'ypwhich' does it show that it is bound to the NIS server?

If not you may need to specify the server to bind to in nis startup config file.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Richard:

As a guess, I would say that your NIS server is failing and thus the client (in this case the same server) can't bind. I trust that you have configured an nis slave server so that this doesn't impact your entire domain. You should set NIS_MAXCHECKS=2 (or 3) so that it will give up after a time.

[someone_4]

WOW New cool hats !!
ypwhich
ypwhich: lvadm02 is not running ypbind

And clay this is not a live system i am just testing between 2 servers. So i was not going to create a slave.

Richard

[Patrick Wallek]

Hmmmm..... Well obviously ypbind hasn't started yet. But you knew that already.

Are you sure all the yp services are running on the server? You might try stopping and restarting them if possible.

[S.K. Chan]

I can think of 2 things. Is your broadcast address correct ? Do you have /var/yp/secureservers setup and if yes check the syntax ?

[someone_4]

thanks for your answers ..
i rebooted the server and now everything works fine.

Thanks
Richard =)