Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-22 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:11:13PM -0800, Mike Noble wrote: The DNS domainname has nothing to do with NIS. It is actually suggested that DNS and NIS should not be the same. So setting dnsdomainname would/should not have any effect on NIS. Yes but if it's not set, then /etc/init.d/domainname

[gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread Radu Filip
Hi, I cannot make ypbind to start: oot # /etc/init.d/ypbind start * Setting NIS domainname to mydomain.com... [ ok ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * ypbind was not started. Networking is up and ok, portmap is running, nfs is running, domainname startd, yp.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Radu Filip wrote: | Hi, I cannot make ypbind to start: | oot # /etc/init.d/ypbind start | * Setting NIS domainname to mydomain.com... [ ok ] | * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. | * ypbind was not started. | | Networking is up

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 06:39:13PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: oot # /etc/init.d/ypbind start * Setting NIS domainname to mydomain.com... [ ok ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * ypbind was not started. You're right, it looks like something to do with your rc

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread Radu Filip
Yes, the NIS server is always running and the other users are using it from their workstations (RH, Fedora) to authenticate and have their homes mounted via NFS. Btw, on my Gentoo I am using a 2.4.28-gentoo-r7 kernel # epm -q ypbind yp-tools ypbind-1.17.2-r1 yp-tools-2.8 # head

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:34:35PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: # epm -q ypbind yp-tools ypbind-1.17.2-r1 yp-tools-2.8 [... contents of ypbind files ...] All of that looks OK (exactly like what I'm running, in fact). I wonder if you've got some kind of circular dependency with domainname?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread Radu Filip
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, N. Owen Gunden wrote: All of that looks OK (exactly like what I'm running, in fact). I wonder if you've got some kind of circular dependency with domainname? (Have you changed any /etc/init.d scripts?) No, I didn't changed anything Make sure domainname, hostname,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread Radu Filip
Altough this works: # /bin/domainname mydomain.com So domain name daemon may not be the issue... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: That's odd on my side: # /etc/init.d/domainname status * status: stopped Aha, I think this is our bogeyman. You need to convince the system that domainname is started, somehow. -- aside explaining /etc/conf.d/domainname -- If

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread Radu Filip
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, N. Owen Gunden wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: That's odd on my side: # /etc/init.d/domainname status * status: stopped Aha, I think this is our bogeyman. You need to convince the system that domainname is started, somehow.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread N. Owen Gunden
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:12:06AM +0200, Radu Filip wrote: I can do a number of workarounds, like adding a line like: /bin/domainname mydomain.com within the start body of ypbind and deleting domainname from the dependencies list. Actually it works this way but I really hate to do such

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem starting ypbind

2005-02-21 Thread Mike Noble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N. Owen Gunden wrote: | | Did you try creating an /etc/dnsdomainname and seeing if the domainname | service would start? | The DNS domainname has nothing to do with NIS. It is actually suggested that DNS and NIS should not be the same. So setting