Well... in fact, I don't think this is quite so...
The problem is how much time does ypbind take to actually start up and
bind to the nis server...
My guess is that if this is run on the server itself it should be
somehow quick and otherwise, it will depend on network condition and nis
server responsivenes...
The point is that this is actually not an error condition but merely a
warning and giving this a few more seconds may or may not help,
depending on how soon you will _actually_ need the nis services up and
binded to the server...
Here's what the startup script /etc/init.d/nis is doing in the
bind_wait() function:
bind_wait()
{
[ "`ypwhich 2>/dev/null`" = "" ] && sleep 1
if [ "`ypwhich 2>/dev/null`" = "" ]
then
bound=""
log_action_begin_msg "binding to YP server"
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
sleep 1
log_action_cont_msg "."
if [ "`ypwhich 2>/dev/null`" != "" ]
then
echo -n " done] "
bound="yes"
break
fi
done
# This should potentially be an error
if [ "$bound" ] ; then
log_action_end_msg 0
else
log_action_end_msg 1 "backgrounded"
fi
fi
}
So... it gives it 10 times 1 second + the time to run ypwich to actually bind
the server.
The point is that even if this fails, ypbind is still running and, if
there is a server available for the configured domain, it will
eventually find it.
If you want to speed your boot times y _may_ want to try reducing the
tries (which are blocking the next startup scripts from running) and
replace the "for" line with a shorter one like:
for i in 1 2 3
do
sleep 1
log_action_cont_msg "."
if [ "`ypwhich 2>/dev/null`" != "" ]
then
echo -n " done] "
bound="yes"
break
fi
done
Give it a try if you want, but I don't think _this_ kind of thing will be
commited to the distro... I don't have a nis setup here at home to try this out
and won't be at the office until Monday.
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NIS fails to bind to YP server during boot
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354588
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