Re: [Sheflug] Caldera Horror!

[Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:25:37PM +0000, James Wallbank wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Aaaargh! (Sorry, I had to get that out of my system...)
> 
> I just tried to use the loathesome COAS (Caldera Open Administration
> System) to reconfigure our fileserver so that it looks at /etc/hosts
> BEFORE it checks a DNS server.
> 

Never used it. A quick change to nsswitch.conf would have done it on my
system. Changeing 

hosts:          dns files

to

hosts:          files dns

> Simple enough, you may think, but now when I reboot NFS is not working.
> No copies of nfsd are running (there used to be four) and consequently
> we cannot serve out the /home directory.
> 
Reboot? What's that :)
Seriously though, how often do you reboot? Sometimes I find when I have
to reboot, after a powercut or something, some change I made to the
startup scripts works in an unexpected way. Have you done any other
changes before the reboot that would stop NFS working? Kernel recompile?

> And before you ask, no, the system (which I didn't install myself) only
> provides two admin tools, COAS and vi).

vi. Pah. I do all my admin with sed, cat & echo :)

> 
> Do any of you have any specific experience of COAS quirks that may help
> me solve this problem FAST? If nobody replies today, I'm going to
> reinstall the system with Mandrake, so I can use linuxconf, which
> actually works as a configurator (no, I don't have the cranky old
> Caldera disks to hand... grouch, grouch, moan...)

Reinstall? That's a bit drastic isn't it? Try starting nfsd manually and
see if that works. Check your resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf & hosts files
look sane. I don't trust automatic admin tools to not bugger about with
files I might have edited manually.

I'm not up with NFS at all, but it does involve lots of other daemons,
like rpc.statd, rpc.lockd. Check that they are present.

> 
> Hey, ho... a busy life is a happy life...

Keeps it interesting. At least it's a learning experience, that's what I
keep telling myself.

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