Re: RH9 + NIS, FC1 + ypbind

[akonstam trinity edu]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 11:46:02AM -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> 
> Has anyone else experienced ypbind just stopping on FC1?
> 
> We've got a mixed network of RH9 and FC1 machines.  The NIS server is 
> currently running on RH9, and ypbind running on FC1 can connect to the 
> RH9 machine to authenticate.  However, occasionally we've noticed that 
> the ypbind service on FC1 will simply stop.  A grep through the logs 
> doesn't show anything unusual (grep -i bind /var/log/messages*) and a 
> status query on the ypbind service (service ypbind status) reports 
> "ypbind dead but pid file exists".   Once ypbind is restarted (service 
> ypbind restart), users can use the machine again.
> 
> kernel: 2.4.22-1.2199.nptlsmp
> ypbind: 1.12-3
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this behaviour?  Any idea what may be causing 
> this, or where to start looking for clues?  Could it be an issue at the 
> NIS end?
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert
This is not really an answer to your question but we have a RH 9 NIS
server and FC2 clients. Periodically ypserv just goes away. We have a
crontab script that checks on the server if ypserv is running every
minute or so and if it has stopped it restarts ypserv. It would be more
of a pain but you could do a similar thing with ypbind on the clients.

We also could not find out why ypserv is stopping.
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