Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash!myshkin.udev.cdc.com!mgc From: mgc@myshkin.udev.cdc.com (Mark G Christenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: RISCos 4.51 bug report and "fix" Message-ID: <28485@shamash.cdc.com> Date: 9 Nov 90 10:34:29 GMT References: <3952@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@shamash.cdc.com Reply-To: mgc@myshkin.udev.cdc.com (Mark G Christenson) Distribution: comp Lines: 38 In article <3952@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, svpillay@pusun3.Princeton.EDU (Kanthan Pillay) writes: |> |> I recently upgraded our RC3240 to RISCos 4.51, which I had eagerly |> awaited since our last version of the OS did not offer support for |> Yellow Pages. So I booted it up and fired up ypbind pointing it at our |> YP server and telneted in to the machine with a YP login and that worked |> fine. So I tried to login to the console and could not get a login |> prompt. In fact, none of our hardwired terminals or telebit dial in |> lines were working. On inspection, the getty processes for all those |> lines were respawning every 20 seconds or so. |> |> I eventually traced the problem to my having turned on YP by creating |> /etc/vis.conf. Removing the file fixed the gettys, but that left me |> without YP. I eventually traced the problem to the "group" entry in |> /etc/vis.conf. By removing the line which said: |> |> group: files nis |> |> the gettys started working again. |> |> [...] You can work around this by creating the group 'tty' in /etc/group and making sure that 'files' precedes 'nis' in the vis.conf entry for groups. |> |> Kanthan Pillay |> Systems Administrator |> Program in Applied and Computational Math |> Princeton University Mark -- Mark Christenson Control Data Corporation Arden Hills, Minnesota