Bug 143821
| Summary: | Silly bug in /etc/init.d/ypserv prevents daemon from starting | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Ion Badulescu <ionut> |
| Component: | ypserv | Assignee: | Chris Feist <cfeist> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | cfeist, shillman, steved |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-01-03 18:03:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I don't see these lines in the ypserv-2.8-11 rpm.
if [ ! -d /var/yp/$DOMAINNAME ]; then
exit 1
fi
Can you run 'rpm -qf /etc/init.d/ypserv' to verify that the ypserv
package owns that file. (To make sure some other rpm hasn't
overwritten it).
Is it also possible that someone added those lines into the init script?
Can you also give me the output of 'rpm --verify ypserv'?
Ugh, I must have been on some serious crack when I looked into this. You're right, the "! -d /var/yp/$DOMAINNAME" change is a local change to the script, which was originally made (correctly) to rh9 and then migrated (incorrectly) to rhel3. Sorry for wasting your time, I'm closing this report with NOTABUG (though PEBCAK--Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard--would be more appropriate... |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041211 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: This is the beginning of the start() function in the ypserv startup script: DOMAINNAME=`domainname` if [ "$DOMAINNAME" = "(none)" -o "$DOMAINNAME" = "" ]; then if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then action $"Setting NIS domain name $NISDOMAIN: " domainname $NISDOMAIN else exit 1 fi fi if [ ! -d /var/yp/$DOMAINNAME ]; then exit 1 fi If the domainname is not initialized, then it is set to the value of the NISDOMAIN variable. However, the DOMAINNAME shell variable is never re-initialized, so the test -d /var/yp/$DOMAINNAME fails. The fix is obvious, I won't insult you guys by listing it here. :-) As a workaround, it works on a second run (duh). That's probably what all the SA's using ypserv on RHEL3 are currently doing... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ypserv-2.8-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up ypserv on a server, enable it in runlevel 3 2. Reboot 3. Observe how it is not running after the server comes up Additional info: I'm listing it as severity: high, because a server that refuses to start when it's supposed to is a rather critical problem. Loss of data *can* occur if all ypservers are down and no authentication mechanism is available.