NIS during client build

[ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY)]

I didn't see anything on the website that addresses what I am attempting to do.

1) I start a FAI install of a client.
2) One of the FAI hook/script does a "chown sybase:sybase /somefile"
3) The hooks/script fails with error "unknown user:group"

Where can I start or how do I run "/etc/init.d/nis start" during the FAI build?

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de [mailto:steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de]
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:06 PM
To: ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY)
Cc: Henning Sprang; linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
Subject: Re: NIS during client build


On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:40:54PM -0700, ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY) wrote:
> Yes, NIS accounts and not local accounts. I need to make sure that the uid:gid match for ownership. I don't want to hard code that info into the fai hooks/scripts.

Have a look at http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin (and below that, FAI configuration).
NIS slave servers get their information from the master server, and even the
NIS master can be set up using snapshots of the NIS tables.

It's a bit tricky though... And TIMTOWTDI, as always.

Steffen

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