[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: NIS vs. Network Manager



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."

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature


Reply to: