Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NFS
by Ramdev · Published December 19, 2011 · Last modified August 6, 2016
Running “ls -la /” hangs, yet running “ls -la” to other root directories (i.e. ls -la /usr) does NOT hang. And the system logs ( i.e. /var/adm/messages) shows NFS related errors, even though this is NOT a true NFS client. Here are the some sample errors that...
Hosts remotely mount other hosts, often times via routers, bridges with straight NFS mounts or with automount. Sometimes, the process accessing those remote hosts just hangs forever or gets the message: NFS SERVER <servername> NOT RESPONDING ..sometimes followed by NFS SERVER <servername> OK
On an NFS server, the following error shows up in /var/adm/messages: /usr/lib/nfs/nfsd[391]: t_accept(file descriptor 5/transport tcp) TLI error 7
Stale file handles occur when a file or directory was held open by an NFS client, and then was either removed, renamed, or replaced. For example a file gets removed and a new file is created using the same inode, or if the file was...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 18, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
To add a slave server to an existing NIS domain do the following: 1. become root on master 2. cd /var/yp/`domainname` 3. /usr/etc/yp/makedbm -u ypservers > /tmp/tempfile 4. vi /tmp/tempfileAdd the new slave servers name on a new line twice in a row on the same...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published March 7, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
The NIS directory is /etc/nisdir, where all the NIS maps reside. Create a user in the /etc/passwd file.
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified July 23, 2016
Below procedure gives the steps to configure NIS Master Server, Slave Server and Client services in both solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Configuring NIS Master Server You must login as root. 1. Define the NIS domainname. # domainname example-domain –> “example-domain” is the domain name. It...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 5, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
It is usual problem for server to hang in middle of the boot process, when they are configured for NIS and not able to connect to the server while booting. In this case, the first thing that needs to be done is to reconfig the system...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 24, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Changing an NIS slave server to a client is a three-part process: 1. Edit the ypservers map on your NIS master, removing the defunct slave from the list of servers. 2. on the NIS slave, remove NIS configuration 3. Convert the NIS slave as NIS client...
The one of the usual way to do this is to backup all the tables and do a fresh os install.
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