Package: nis
Version: 3.17-14
Severity: minor
In nis.debian.howto.gz it says: <quote>
1. HOW TO SETUP A LOCAL NIS CLIENT
1.1 Install the netbase, portmap and nis packages
1.2 The installation procedure will ask for your NIS domainname. This
is just a name which describes the group of systems that use NIS, it
is not a hostname. ...
</quote> Saying "just a name" isn't very helpful. It's necessary to
tell me how I can find out the right name to give ! It seems the name
I have to give is in fact the response nisdomainname gives me on the
machine I'll be using as server (1.3). 1.2 should say that.
I followed the instructions (on a clean shiny new minimally configured
virtual server our sysadmins had prepared for me), but
/etc/init.d/nis restart
failed and backgrounded. I decided to check I'd got the right host IP
address, so fed it to the host command, but it wasn't installed. So I
installed the bind9-host package. Now host confirmed I had the right
address. Hunch suggested bind (which had just been pulled in) might
actually be some help; so I tried another restart of nis and this time
it worked.
I conclude that nis needs bind (or something else pulled in by
bind9-host); 1.1 should mention this (and ideally the nis package
should actually Depend on it).
-- Package-specific info:
nm-tool is not installed
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages nis depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.3 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-11 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii make 3.81-4 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii netbase 4.32 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii portmap 6.0-5 RPC port mapper
nis recommends no packages.
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