Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@condor.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Problems with FTP in a NIS slave server Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 07:24:21 GMT References: Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Followup-To: comp.unix.admin Distribution: comp,alt Organization: What do you mean I *can't* do that???? Lines: 45 In-reply-to: jc@albatross.bu.edu's message of 31 Mar 91 09:41:10 GMT >>>>> On 31 Mar 91 09:41:10 GMT, jc@albatross.bu.edu (James Cameron) said: jc> System: SunOS 4.1.1c on SparcStation 2 running NIS as a slave server jc> Problem: Users cannot ftp to machine. Anonymous ftp works fine. jc> Comments: Just upgraded to a 4.1.1c and we did not have any problems with Thanks for all the help out there!! (And sorry for the repeat request....) The solution was simply to restore /etc/shells The reason I had problems is that somehow an extra '\' got on the tcsh line and that was what was causing problems. I knew I had restored the file, but I had not checked it contents. Thanks goes out to: Albert Pang mjo@ais.org (Mike O'Connor) gengenba@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Michael Gengenbach) JC -- James Cameron - jc@raven.bu.edu | "But to risk we must, for the Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab | greatest hazard in life is to risk ECS Engineering Dept. | nothing. For the man or woman who Boston University, Boston MA | risks nothing, has nothing, does Work: 617 353-2879 | nothing, is nothing." Information Technology | Boston University, Boston MA | (Quote from the eulogy for the late work: 617 353-2780 ext. 338 | Christa McAuliffe.)