Re: ypserv broken(?) in rhel4u3

[Daryl Herzmann <akrherz iastate edu>]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Waleed Mubark wrote:

> I think this problem may be on Ethernet adapter cable from
> the server to the switch.

Hi,  thanks for the email.  Is there a reason why you think that?  Is 
there something in the new release that makes it sensitive to the cable? 
The machine continues to work fine with the old release of ypserv.

daryl

> On 3/8/06, Daryl Herzmann <akrherz iastate edu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I updated my NIS server to el4u3 this evening and yp clients prompty
> > started to complain:
> >
> > do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> >
> > The NIS server started dumping these messsages
> >
> > Mar  8 00:23:16 xxx ypserv[23967]: children is below 0 (-1)!
> > ....
> > Mar  8 00:24:12 xxx ypserv[23967]: children is below 0 (-13)!
> > Mar  8 00:24:14 xxx ypserv[23967]: children is below 0 (-14)!
> > ....
> >
> > This message appears to generated from a patch that went into the
> > el4u3 update....
> >
> >
> > I manually downgraded to ypserv-2.13-5  and everything seems to be working
> > again.
> >
> > Any ideas what is up?
> >
> > thanks,
> >    daryl
> >
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>
> --
> ---------------------------------
> :..Best Regards.
> :..Waleed Mubark.

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