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- From: rick@rgb.com (Rick Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: pcnfsd_v2 yp_match error & automounter
- Summary: rpc.pcnfsd v2 gives yp-match error: comments & suggestion
- Keywords: pcnfs,automount
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.185950.28517@rgb.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 18:59:50 GMT
- Organization: RGB Spectrum
- Lines: 23
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- After upgrading to version 2 of Sun's pcnfs daemon, I started getting
- yp_match errors on the console of the server where the daemon was running.
- Investigating the problem, I discovered ( by adding a little code to
- pcnfsd_v2.c ) that the daemon was trying to do a yp match in the map
- auto.home for the user name in order to find the user's home directory.
- Since we don't yet have the automounter running ( or even installed )
- this map does not exist, and yp_match was giving an error. I have
- commented this section of Sun's code out, and things seem to be working
- well.
- My question here is in two parts:
- 1) why doesn't pcnfsd look up the home directory in the password
- service thereby remaining compatible with non-automounter sites?
-
- 2) why does pc/nfs care anyway? It dosn't do anything with
- this home directory information.
-
- Rick Davis
- rick@rgb.com
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