Services error -- new to me !?

[Howard Wilkinson]

William Case wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 21:49 -0400, William Case wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Craig;
>>
>> I am too worn out to start a new trip down learning lane tonight.
>>
>> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:13 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 21:05 -0400, William Case wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi;
>>>>
>>>> Just today I started getting the following error message while
>>>> initiating (booting) Fedora 9.
>>>>
>>>>         "Jul  7 19:24:30 CASE rpc.idmapd[1898]: libnfsidmap: Unable to
>>>>         determine a default nfsv4 domain; consider specifying one in
>>>>         idmapd.conf"
>>>>
>>>> 'man' and googled for rpc.idmapd, ibnfsidmap and idmapd.conf. They were
>>>> written in the usual computer explanatory Greek.  None of them exist on
>>>> my system.  Not quite clear who or what they belong to; recently yum
>>>> upgraded some applications.  Could one of those upgrades be looking for
>>>> something to configure??
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> scratch that...perhaps restart rcpidmap
>>>       
>> Got the following;
>>
>> ]# service rpcidmapd restart
>> Stopping RPC idmapd:                                       [FAILED]
>> Starting RPC idmapd: rpc.idmapd: libnfsidmap: Unable to determine a
>> default nfsv4 domain; consider specifying one in idmapd.conf
>>
>> rpc.idmapd: Unable to create name to user id mappings.
>>                                                            [FAILED]
>>
>> I just don't have the energy to decipher all this tonight.
>>
>>     
> Gave it one last try: got it working.  Domain line was commented out.
> Apparently I am now 'Domain = local.domain.edu'
>   
The domain name does not matter so long as it is consistent on all 
clients and servers in your network, convention is to set it to your 
local domain name but is can be anything that parses as a domain name.

Howard.

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