NIS during client build

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 01:45:23PM -0700, ANDERSON RUSSELL D (ANDY) wrote:
> I didn't see anything on the website that addresses what I am attempting to do.

NIS stuff is in scripts/MERLIN/S*fai for me. It's indeed quite hidden...
 
> 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?

Hmmm, I don't remember the details but it might be useful to only run ypbind
(with the correct yp.conf settings, of course).
You can try it by hand first (in chroot) - the -d option may be helpful.
If you need more than the available console(s) try screen...

S

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