Re: [Sheflug] Exported filesystem permissions... Urgent Help Please!

[James Wallbank <james [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris, (and everyone else),

> Just as an experiment, plonk the line:
> 
> 	*.debug			/var/log/allmessages
> 
> into /etc/syslog.conf, then find the PID of syslogd and do a kill -HUP <pid>

I'll try that momentarily, if my current lead doesn't work.

At the moment I'm suspicious that NIS only seems to be working, but
isn't REALLY working PROPERLY. My evidence? I added a new user to the
system, but he hasn't turned up on the client login screens even after I
restart the client. That means that I suspect an  OLD copy of passwd at
/home/oldconfig/etc/passwd may be being used to make the NIS maps, and
not the REAL /etc/passwd file.

YP servers seem to be slippery things... I simply copied the whole
/var/yp/ and /etc/nis/ directories from the old server to the new, but
should I in fact rebuid the YP databases from scratch?

The weird thing is, an NIS map IS being served out... but I wonder
whether, although it allows one to log in, the rest of the system treats
you as 'nobody' - hence the readonly problem.

Does this sound possible? 

Cheers,

James
=====

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 20:26, Chris J wrote:
> > 
> > No, there's nothing useful in dmesg, and, it has to be said, nothing
> > particularly illuminating in /var/log/messages - msec (Mandrake
> > Security) does a lot of work changing permissions, but nothing
> > unhelpful.
> > 
> 
> Might just be that there isn't enough verbosity... (or could be that there
> really is no log). Just as an experiment, plonk the line:
> 
> 	*.debug			/var/log/allmessages
> 
> into /etc/syslog.conf, then find the PID of syslogd and do a kill -HUP <pid>
> 
> This will probably end up being very verbose, depending on what the machine
> is doing at the same time, but if nfsd is trying to log something, this will
> catch it.
> 
> I suspect the default is that syslog is set to only log informational
> messages and higher...unless someone that knows Mandrake knows otherwise.
> 
> Chris...
> 
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