>> I suspect that the issue is that your network connection is taking a >> long time to come up. This isn't really a problem in the NIS package, >> with the default network configuration method in Debian the init scripts >> will bring the network up prior to NIS being started, or if you were >> using Network Manager with that. Could you please confirm how your >> network is configured and that it is being brought up before NIS is >> started? > > I am not using Network Manager. The network is configured with dhcp. I > have the following in /etc/network/interfaces: > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > You are right - I added a ping -c 10 <nis master> in /etc/init.d/nis > and it seems the network is not initialized. Problem is in the front > of the computer. >
Fixed by adding an auto eth0 line in interfaces. Having only allow-hotplug seems to initialize the interface a little late. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
