On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:45:23PM -0700, ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY) wrote: > I didn't see anything on the website that addresses what I am attempting to > do.
NIS stuff is in scripts/MERLIN/S*fai for me. It's indeed quite hidden... > 1) I start a FAI install of a client. > 2) One of the FAI hook/script does a "chown sybase:sybase /somefile" > 3) The hooks/script fails with error "unknown user:group" > > Where can I start or how do I run "/etc/init.d/nis start" during the FAI > build? Hmmm, I don't remember the details but it might be useful to only run ypbind (with the correct yp.conf settings, of course). You can try it by hand first (in chroot) - the -d option may be helpful. If you need more than the available console(s) try screen... S -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI fuer Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) SciencePark Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam * http://www.aei.mpg.de * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html