RC scripts and NIS UPDATE

[Vulpes Velox]

Well I got it working.

It adds two more variables to rc.conf.

nis_server_available_test: Toggles nis test on or off
nis_avail_tester: script to use for testing

If the script exits with a 1, NIS is not enabled. I am currently using
a script that ,using md5, hashes the out put from arp and compares it
to a good hash.

Any ways, not heard any feed back on this yet. I would be really
interested to hear some opinions or suggestions on this.

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:34:39 -0600
Vulpes Velox <v.velox at vvelox.net> wrote:

> I am currently am currently working on making modifications to the
> rc system to allow NIS  to not be started if the server is not
> present.
> 
> So far I am just looking at disabling ypbind at start if certain
> conditions are meet. The idea it is to run a script that checks if
> the servers or server is present and then if it is, ypbind if
> enabled, if not it modifies the current variables to stop ypbind
> from being run and prints a message about it to stdout.
> 
> >From my understanding this is the one that needs disabled if the
> system is to operate outside of it's usual network. Allowing it to
> fall back to /etc/ for it's information. I've tested it by disabling
> it upon startup manually and it worked fine. Is there any other NIS
> related scripts I should make changes to, or is this the only one I
> should worry about?
> 
>  If any one have opinions or any input on any of this, I would be
> interested to hear it.
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