Re: ypbind problem with RH6.0

[Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>]

Hi THere!

I am the one who found this.  Please find attached the patch to fix
it, or go and get one of Alan Cox's ac patches as it is in there. Also 
mail Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> to get Linus to plonk this
one in.

Cheers,

Matthew Grant



Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au> writes:

> >Has anyone solved the problem of using an NFS root for a diskless
> >client that wants to use NIS when both the client and server
> >are running RedHat 6.0 (or maybe just the server running 2.2 kernel)?
> >
> >The problem is when ypbind is run on the client it exits saying
> >it is already running but the PID it lists is its own PID!.
> 
> I'm successfully using YP on a 6.0 client to a Solaris server but not
> a diskless client, so if there are any problems I imagine it would lie
> with NFS. I seem to recall there were some problems with file locking in
> Linux 2.2's NFS, I don't know if they have been solved. RH6.0 uses the
> kernel space NFS server, maybe you could try the user space NFS server
> to see if that makes any difference.
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