Re: NetworkManager and NIS

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 13:11 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 18:15 +0100, Stefan Scheler wrote:
<snip>
> > What's still to be done is to set up the nis domain name and modify yp.conf 
> > accordingly. This should probably placed somehow in the distribution specific 
> > backends (i don't know how distribution specific that task really is)? 
> 
> It likely will be distro-specific.  I don't know if anyone has cooked up
> a resolvconf-type thing to manage yp.conf yet, but surely fewer apps
> fight over it than resolv.conf.  It might be adequate to just not care
> about this until we find out another tool that wants to write yp.conf as
> well.  The other issue is how to alert the system that yp.conf has
> changed...

On FC and RHEL, you would need to modify /etc/sysconfig/network (to set
the NISDOMAIN) and do a "service ypbind restart". It would be pretty
gross, as ypbind would take a long time to timeout if there are
problems.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>