Hannon bulk mail wrote:
> Hi, folks. We recently installed SL 4.3 on a dual-Opteron system here:
>
> # uname -a
> Linux xxxxxxx.physics.ucdavis.edu 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 18:36:24 CDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> We set the system up to be an NIS server:
>
> yum install ypserv
> service ypserv start
>
> /usr/lib64/yp/ypinit -m
>
> The system is, so far, the only NIS server for its group of client
> systems.
>
> The installation seemed to go as expected, but we encountered a problem:
> after a few minutes the server would lose its ypbinding to itself,
> effectively causing NIS to stop working.
This has been reported here already. Have a look at:
http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0605&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS&P=R1706&I=-3