On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:01:00PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > Recent versions of NIS have included support in ypbind for Network > Manager. This support currently causes ypbind to disable NIS client > functionality when Network Manager reports that the computer is > disconnected. Unfortunately, Network Manager is frequently installed on > systems where it is not in use and which have network configurations > which it does not support. On many of these systems the result is that > Network Manager runs and reports that the system is disconnected from > the network, rendering ypbind unusable. Please consider nis 3.17-6 for etch. It works around this problem by default using this message: > - Disable Network Manager support at runtime by default. The > disadvantage here is that this would be done by disabling a > frequently edited conffile so many users would not pick up the new > default on upgrade and would therefore be affected by the integration > problems. (in actual fact it's a configuration file, not a conffile.) I'll submit an update to the release notes shortly. Diff between this revision and the current 3.17-5 in etch: diff -u nis-3.17/debian/changelog nis-3.17/debian/changelog --- nis-3.17/debian/changelog +++ nis-3.17/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +nis (3.17-6) unstable; urgency=medium + + * Set Network Manager support to disabled in /etc/default/nis, working + around problems caused by bogus link state reports from Network Manager + when it is not in use. + + -- Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:49:30 +0000 + nis (3.17-5) unstable; urgency=low * Add Dutch translation of the Debconf templates, kindly provided by * Bart diff -u nis-3.17/debian/nis.default nis-3.17/debian/nis.default --- nis-3.17/debian/nis.default +++ nis-3.17/debian/nis.default @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ YPSERVARGS= # Additional options to be given to ypbind when it is started. -YPBINDARGS= +YPBINDARGS=-no-dbus # Additional options to be given to yppasswdd when it is started. Note # that if -p is set then the YPPWDDIR above should be empty. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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