getcwd()/automount/NIS+ problem
2007-12-25 11:40:00
Well, there were numerous suggestions. The problem was that the
getcwd() call was failing intermittently in my automounted home
directory. The daemon logs also pointed out error reports from
keyserv and nisd concerning authentification.
I did a bunch of things, suggested by several people, and it seems
that the problems have stopped. What I ended up doing was
o killing and restarting all nis+/automount processes on both the
server and the client,
o doing explicit keylogins on both machines, and
o installing xntpd.
Of the three, I expect the last did the trick. It was Kevin Davidson
<tkld@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> who suggested that NIS+ timestamps were to
blame for the authentification failures. He also wondered why the
heck Sun would ship something like NIS+ without the software to keep
the timestamps synchronized.... The Network Time Protocol stuff is
available from
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
and is probably a good idea in any case.
Thanks again to the list for the prompt and useful suggestions.
CJW
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