Bug#290307: nis: howto server setup modifications

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:13:03AM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > Let me know if there is anything elsee that could be useful here. Bah, figured it out. It turns out that by default Debian installer configures the network using DHCP and writes the localhost line in the form: | 127.0.0.1 loca

Bug#290307: nis: howto server setup modifications

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Fry
> What's the output of: > > host > host > cat /etc/nsswitch.conf > > on the master server? I assume that you mean before I made the change to /etc/hosts: % host srs1 srs1.pdl.cmu.local has address 172.19.129.91 % host 172.19.129.91 91.129.19.172.in-addr.arpa domain name poin

Bug#290307: nis: howto server setup modifications

2005-01-13 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:14:46AM -0500, Charles Fry wrote: > - ypinit, when run as suggested in section 3.7, assumes that >localhost.localdomain is the current NIS server if that line comes >first in /etc/hosts. By putting the real IP address and hostname >above the 127.0.0.1 line,

Bug#290307: nis: howto server setup modifications

2005-01-13 Thread Charles Fry
Package: nis Version: 3.12-3 Severity: minor First of all, let me thank you for the excelent howto you've included in the nis documentation. I thought I would inform you of two minor inconcsistencies which I discovered when attempting to follow your instructions: - In section 3.7 you suggest to