Problems with SCO 3.2 automounter and NIS

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2 total messages Started by Michael A Leo Sun, 24 Apr 1994 05:13

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Author: Michael A Leo
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 1994 05:13

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Hi, 

  I am a SunOS/Solaris 2.x hack just starting out with a Compaq Proliant
SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 system.  We installed the system from 
the Compaq supplied CD, and have had lots of troubles with it. 

  We are currently trying to get the box to "behave" in our mostly Sun
environment.  But it seems the automounter is seriously injured, and that
NIS (YP) is such a hack that the system MUST be a slave server!

  As we are awaiting the purchase of our SCO contract, I am turning to 
the net for some near term help.  

  1) Are there any patches we can obtain for YP or the automounter?

  2) Is the Compaq CD not a good example of SCO UNIX?

  3) Is there something on the system like Solaris 2.x's ufsdump?

Thanks,

Michael Leo                       
ADC Telecommunications            
(612) 936-8305 (voice)            
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Michael Leo                       
ADC Telecommunications            
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mike_leo@adc.com

Re: Problems with SCO 3.2 automounter and NIS

#110

Author: Paul S. Carlson
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 08:33

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In article <MAL.94Apr24001311@valandil.adc.com> Michael A Leo,
mal@valandil.adc.com writes:
>Hi, 
>
>  I am a SunOS/Solaris 2.x hack just starting out with a Compaq Proliant
>SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 system.  We installed the system from 
>the Compaq supplied CD, and have had lots of troubles with it. 
>
>  We are currently trying to get the box to "behave" in our mostly Sun
>environment.  But it seems the automounter is seriously injured, and that
>NIS (YP) is such a hack that the system MUST be a slave server!
>
>  As we are awaiting the purchase of our SCO contract, I am turning to 
>the net for some near term help.  
>
>  1) Are there any patches we can obtain for YP or the automounter?
>
>  2) Is the Compaq CD not a good example of SCO UNIX?
>
>  3) Is there something on the system like Solaris 2.x's ufsdump?
>

Sorry Michael, I don't have any answers not having attacked nis yet but
I do have warnings.  If you have Micropolis drives and the builtin
"Fast SCSI 2 Controller" try the following.

Pick something large to back up.  We used 

tar cf /tmp/tar.tmp /usr/spool/news' &

The idea is to keep the SCSI bus busy while we preform the next two steps.

First:
for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
do
	cp /unix /tmp/unix.test.$n
done

Second:
sum -lr /tmp/unix.test.*

If the numbers produced by sum don't match then talk the your supplier
about
replacing the Micropolis drives.  Untill we did this we had all sorts of
strange problems related to corupted files & file systems.

Paul

Paul S. Carlson                                           Tel:
671-637-5488
Kuentos Communications, Inc.                              Fax:
671-632-5641
P.O. Box 22887                                          Modem:
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