Solution: Make the workstation a NIS slave master. Thanks to all who responded! Mark ----------------------------------------------------- Mark Hargrave, Sr. Unix Systems Administrator Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. - Michoud Operations New Orleans, LA E-Mail: hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov ----------------------------------------------------- Original problem/question: > > Sorry I didn't explain myself more clearly. > > Here's my scenario: > > It's 3 am on a Saturday morning. I have a user logged in to > a workstation running a major application in production mode. > The environment is Solaris 2.6 using NIS. > > The network goes down and ypbind complains that the NIS > server is not available and the system just hangs and waits. > The user is unable to run the application. > > The user halts and reboots the workstation and the system tries > to start the ypbind process and waits for the NIS server to become > available. At this point the system just hangs and never completes > the bootup process. > > I want a method of having the user bootup the system without the > network and NIS configured so that they can continue to run this > application. I don't want to give out the "root" password and > I don't want to come out to work this early in the morning on > a Saturday. > > Any ideas or suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Mark > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Mark Hargrave, Sr. Unix Systems Administrator > Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. - Michoud Operations > New Orleans, LA > > E-Mail: hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov > ----------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers > > > ----- End Included Message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers >Received on Wed May 23 13:03:03 2001
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Mar 23 2016 - 17:46:15 EDT