I sent this to comp.os.osf1.osf1 and .misc, but nobody seems to be answering,
so I thought here might be a better creek in which to fish. Anyone have
any ideas?
Todd
>I'm having some very strange problems and would love it if anyone could
>help me out. We have a simple NIS master/slave pair of Alpha 250 4/266's
>running digital Unix 3.2. User directories reside on the master, and
>various other directories are of course shared between the two machines.
>
>Logins to the slave server are working just fine, and logins by users to
>the CONSOLE of the master server are okay as well. The only problem seems
>to be that logins by telnet or rlogin to the master from either the slave
>server or anywhere else do not work. The error message I get is
>
>OSF/1 (numep3.phys.nwu.edu) (ttyp3)
>
>login: todd
>Password:
>Can't open /var/adm/lastlog
>
>now, the strange thing is, I can open /var/adm/lastlog just fine. When I
>log into the slave server or into the console of the master server with
>a non-privileged username, the /var/adm/lastlog file is written to. The
>file permissions for the lastlog file are the same on the master as on
>the slave, -rw-r--r--.
>
>Does anyone have any idea how I can rectify this situation? It's really
>a major pain in the butt.
>
>Todd
>
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Todd K. Pedlar ! Phone: (708) 491 - 8630
Grad Student, High Energy Physics ! Fax: (708) 491 - 8627
Northwestern University ! Email: todd_at_numep1.phys.nwu.edu
Fermilab Experiment E835 ! toddp_at_fnalv.fnal.gov
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Received on Mon Jan 15 1996 - 19:07:51 NZDT