[3556] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: ypbind lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Sat Sep 29 15:44:38 2001
Message-Id: <200109291944.PAA22699@quickstation-zocalo.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, sly@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:38:41 EDT."
<20010929153841.U23491@multics.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:44:34 -0400
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
>Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sat, 29 Sep 2001
>at 15:34:55 -0400 in <200109291934.PAA22622@quickstation-zocalo.mit.edu>:
>
>> If you are reading this on sipb-office please read between the parts
>
>I think this would have been better done in 2 messages.
>> I think you are severely lacking in your description below, since
>> people will not see a ypbind problem UNTIL they try to update and
>> the update is running. There is no way they will see a ypbind
>> problem unless they already have cluster info. I would like you
>> to better explain your third papragraph.
>
>Like I said, it was based on a suggestion from Greg. Perhaps it
>is not applicable, in which case the situation is rather simpler.
>So much the better.
Let me make it painfully clear that one cannot take ANY update
be it to 8.4.26 or to 9.0 without cluster info (hesiod or cluster.local).
So the need to kludge a cluster.local file is not an issue that is
unique to an 8.4.26 update some sort of hesiod type information is
required for any update.
--Angie
