Re: NetworkManager clobbers /etc/yp.conf in fedora 14

[David Burns <tdbtdb gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Dave Burns <tburns hawaii edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the solution!
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 11:56 -1000, Dave Burns wrote:
>>> How do I politely ask NetworkManager to let me tell it what servers to
>>> use for ypbind/NIS? [os is fedora 14]
>
>> It's not NM really, but a "dispatcher" script installed by yp.  Look
>> in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d and look for the script that
>> clobbers yp.conf.  NM just executes any scripts that get dropped in
>> there, and since often your YP details are passed through DHCP, that
>> script will scrape them out of DHCP and push them to yp.conf.  I'm not
>> sure what the exact problem is, but that script might not be doing the
>> right thing.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
> /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/11-dhclient executes
> /etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/nis.sh, which looks like it does the clobbering.
> I moved nis.sh out of there and rebooted, and all seems well now.
>
> mahalo!
> Dave
>
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