On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:30, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > Remembet I have the NIS stopped.
> 
> Then you need to either fix NIS or define the amanda user locally on the 
> server.

My experience has been that on linux, NIS (via ypbind) is unreliable and
tends to crash, so I always put the amanda user in the local passwd file
to make sure that backups don't fail even if ypbind craps out.  I think
part of my problem has been that I'm using SGI IRIX as NIS servers, and
Linux as NIS clients, and something between them is not 100% compatible.

If you really want to rely on NIS, I would suggest setting up some kind
of a "watchdog" to restart ypbind if it fails.  In fact, I think I am
going to look into that option right now, it would fix some of the
problems/complaints that I have had, like occasional problems with
people not being able to login.

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Jonathan Dill <jfdill AT jfdill DOT com>