NIS files

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Weird... I am almost sure I had hand edited the /etc/yp.conf file when I installed the mail server we have (it's running redhat 9)... 
Thx for the help...

Pedro Macedo

Message: 29
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:57:59 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: NIS files
Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com

Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

>> I'm installing the first fedora server in my work and I found something 
>> odd... I edited the /etc/yp.conf and added the settings to my domain:
>> domain NIS.mydomain.com broadcast
>> Then , when I tried to start ypbind , it didn't start... It only worked 
>> when I edited /etc/sysconfig/network and added the line 
>> NISDOMAIN=NIS.mydomain.com .
>> Is there any reason to do this?
>  
>

Yes.  The init scripts set your "domainname" if you have NISDOMAIN in 
the network sysconfig file.  Otherwise, you have no "domainname" 
setting, and NIS doesn't work.  There's nothing odd about it.


>> And another question: why is there the directory /etc/rc.d/init.d ? Why 
>> arent all the initscripts be in /etc/init.d , just like it was in redhat ?
>  
>

The structure has been as it is for a very long time.  Red Hat always 
had /etc/rc.d/init.d, and later FHS required /etc/init.d and /etc/rcx.d

Red Hat symlinked those to the locations they'd been using, and that's 
the way it is now.