Continuing the slow process of migrating from Woody to Sarge...
I've noticed another oddity. Given an NIS workstation (that is, a box
configured to be a YP client but not a server) the ypbind process fails
to start as the box boots. If you invoke the startup script directly
it starts fine. Examining the script (/etc/init.d/nis) there's some
jiggery-pokery going on to test whether it was invoked as "/etc/init.d/nis"
or as "/etc/rc?.d/nis"). In the latter case the comments suggest that
the job of starting ypbind should be handled be something in
/etc/network/if-up.d/. The trouble is there is nothing at all in this
directory so ypbind simply doesn't start. It's difficult to tell what
package the nis package is expecting to have supplied the necessary file.
Anyone know? Is this just a cock-up in the NIS package or is there some
other package which should have been installed?
TIA,
John
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
We had a woodhenge here once but it rotted.
