SUMMARY: Booting without Network Configured

From: Mark Hargrave <hargrme_at_wisdom.maf.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 08:03:03 EDT
Solution:

Make the workstation a NIS slave master.

Thanks to all who responded!


Mark

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Mark Hargrave, Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. - Michoud Operations
New Orleans, LA

E-Mail: hargrme@wisdom.maf.nasa.gov
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Original problem/question:
> 
> Sorry I didn't explain myself more clearly.
> 
> Here's my scenario:
> 
> It's 3 am on a Saturday morning.  I have a user logged in to
> a workstation running a major application in production mode.
> The environment is Solaris 2.6 using NIS.
> 
> The network goes down and ypbind complains that the NIS
> server is not available and the system just hangs and waits.
> The user is unable to run the application.
> 
> The user halts and reboots the workstation and the system tries 
> to start the ypbind process and waits for the NIS server to become
> available. At this point the system just hangs and never completes
> the bootup process.
> 
> I want a method of having the user bootup the system without the 
> network and NIS configured so that they can continue to run this
> application.  I don't want to give out the "root" password and
> I don't want to come out to work this early in the morning on
> a Saturday.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
> 
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> Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. - Michoud Operations
> New Orleans, LA
> 
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