Dear Managers,
Only one response from
Spider.Boardman_at_Orb.Nashua.NH.US
I took Spider's hint, used nissetup to use btree instead of NDBM on my
NIS maps (and rebooted). That did the trick.
Spider's comment:
who said:
You didn't say which version of the O/S. It might matter. If at
least V4.0D, are you using NDBM or DB/btree for your NIS maps?
I'd expect an NDBM-based NIS installation to hit apparent 'hangs'
after a while, where it'll eventually either recover, having
created HUGE .pag files, or it'll crap out eventually, after
filling the partition that contains /var/yp/`domainname`.
<I run v4.0Dp3.>
My original post
Dear Managers,
When I came in this morning, I found I had a lot of errors from
authck (which I run nightly from a script called by cron). authck
compained that virutally every NIS user (possibly all; I can't check)
was in the Protected Password database but couldn't be verified by
calling getprpwent(). When run from the command line authck hangs
trying to compare the Protected Password database with /etc/passwd.
NIS users have no trouble logging in, however I can't run
dxaccounts to add a new user. dxaccounts hangs when you click OK
after entering the data for the new user. I checked that the proper
entries are indeed appended to /var/yp/src/prpasswd and
/var/yp/src/passwd. However, a make of either passwd or prpasswd in
/var/yp also hangs.
It sounds like the NIS maps are corrupted somehow, but I don't
know where. Any suggestions?
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_cs.wsc.ma.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
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Received on Thu Aug 05 1999 - 23:01:03 NZST