Thanks to Tim Cutts, James Sainsbury, Johan Brusche, Thomas Blinn and
Dirk Kleinhesselink.
The simplest set of steps is:
1. Make sure you have a complete passwd and group file local to the
machine.
2. /sbin/init.d/nis stop
3. Edit /etc/rc.config.common to:
NIS_CONF="NO"
4. simultaneously shutdown -h now on old master server, with shutdown
-r now on client
5. when client comes back up it is a free standing machine.
That appears to be all that is absolutely necessary. There were some
suggestions about modifying /etc/svc.conf as well and also some
fuller edits of rc.config.common, but these things did not appear to
be absolutely necessary.
thanks to all
Derek
Received on Mon Sep 12 2005 - 09:55:11 NZST