NIS trouble
Hello everyone, I sent this question to the list Friday when the list was being flooded with multiple copies of each question. Once I started noticing the problem, I know I was much less careful about reading, and figure that I was not alone. To my knowledge there were no replies on Friday, and since someone who may have been able to help me with this problem is likely to have just deleted all messages posted on Friday, I'm asking again. Sorry for filling your (overfull) mailboxes with the same question twice. Here goes the question: I'm having trouble with yppasswd in NIS. The setup is this: passwd, shadow, group, etc. files are in the /var/yp/ypfiles directory. Of course there are corresponding files in /etc on the ypserver, but they do not contain all of the users in the /var/yp/ypfiles location. In the makefile YPSRCDIR (sp?) and YPDIR are both set to /var/yp/ypfiles, so as I understand it NIS should not be looking in /etc at all. Anyone who is on the /var/yp/ypfiles list is able to log in to all of the yp clients. However, only those that are listed in the /etc files are able to change their passwords using yppasswd. Does anybody know how to fix this? I know that I could just use the /etc files for NIS and limit access to the server, but I would like two different passwords to be used, one for the NIS server and one for the NIS clients, for those who are allowed access to both systems. Thanks, Nate
NIS - yppasswd not working right
Hi, I'm having trouble with yppasswd in NIS. The setup is this: passwd, shadow, group, etc. files are in the /var/yp/ypfiles directory. Of course there are corresponding files in /etc on the ypserver, but they do not contain all of the users in the /var/yp/ypfiles location. In the makefile YPSRCDIR (sp?) and YPDIR are both set to /var/yp/ypfiles, so as I understand it NIS should not be looking in /etc at all. Anyone who is on the /var/yp/ypfiles list is able to log in to all of the yp clients. However, only those that are listed in the /etc files are able to change their passwords using yppasswd. Does anybody know how to fix this? I know that I could just use the /etc files for NIS and limit access to the server, but I would like two different passwords to be used, one for the NIS server and one for the NIS clients, for those who are allowed access to both systems. Thanks, Nate
xdm login problems
Hello all: A strange problem with xdm. The setup is this: a NIS server we'll cleverly call server, and a NIS client we'll cleverly call client. xdm works with no problems on server. Console logins on client work fine. However if I start xdm and then try to log in on client the following happen: when attempting to log in as a regular user the screen accepts the correct password, goes blank and clicks for a second, then goes back to the xdm login prompt. Deliberately (or indeliberately) entering an incorrect password results in the usual incorrect login message. When attempting to log in as root on client using the client root password, xdm gives the incorrect login message. When attempting to log in as root on client using server's root password the screen goes blank and clicks for a second, then goes back to the xdm login prompt. Logging in on the console then typing startx starts X on the client fine, so I don't think it's a problem analogous to trying to log in with no shell. The following lines are from the xdm.log file: AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:27 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: Can't open display ':0' AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:27 2000: 621 X: client 3 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xmodmap: unable to open display ':0' AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:30 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:30 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:30 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:30 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:30 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:31 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:31 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:32 2000: 621 X: client 2 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: Can't open display ':0' AUDIT: Thu Aug 17 03:40:32 2000: 621 X: client 3 rejected from local host Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xmodmap: unable to open display ':0' Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nate
NFS and RPC timeouts
Hi, Sorry if this has been answered here before, I tried looking in the archives and came up with nothing. I'm trying to run NFS and have everything set up correctly on both client and server sides (according to the HOWTO and man pages), at least as far as I can tell. However, when I'm on the client and try to mount a filesystem by hand (not at boot-time via fstab, which I haven't tried yet since I can't get it to work by hand), I get mount: RPC: Timed out I'm assuming that something is going on on the client side in that it's not waiting long enough to hear back from the server. Is there a way that I can get the client to wait longer? The pause is about 15 seconds by the way, and PING averages 0.6 ms between the 2 machines. Thanks in advance for any help, Nathan Smith
Trident 3dImage975 and X
(errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I notice that it is detecting the card up top, but then the lines with (--) followed by my card name later. It seems to be eliminating the modes outside my monitor's ranges (30-70H 50-130V), which is good, but I confess to being ignorant about what much of this output means. Any help would be gratefully appreciated, and thanks at least for reading this far. Nathan Smith
Mathematica
Hello all, We're (I'm) setting up a computer lab here at Univ. Texas at Tyler (nevermind the address above), and I'd like to run Debian as the OS in the lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF Linux system, but it's my understanding that Debian is not ELF but glibc6. Is there a way to make this work? Does anybody have Mathematica running on a Debian system? I have Debian on my machine here at work and would like to not have to switch to Red Hat or something else since I'm already somewhat familiar with what I have, but if it's not possible to run Mathematica I'll have to - or if it's too much work I'll have to as well since I have other duties. Anyone able to answer my questions? Thanks for your time, Nate
