[lug] ulimit

[Hugh Brown]

They are on the same network, everything seems to work, they just get a
lot of email messages claiming that there was a timeout.

Hugh

"Michael J. Pedersen" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 08:15:25AM -0500, Hugh Brown wrote:
> > On another list I'm on, someone is having problems with nis timing out.
> > All of the searching I've done seems to indicate that increasing the
> > number of file handles will do the trick.
> 
> Check to make sure the server is on the same network as the client. If not,
> there is some skullduggery which has to be done to make it work (nothing
> serious, but it needs to be done). Basically, the default behavior of NIS is
> to broadcast the request for the server it should work with. If no server is
> on the network, then no server replies, and NIS times out. Telling nis which
> server to use will solve that problem. An easier solution might be a NIS slave
> server on the same network, though.
> 
> Answers for doing all of these is in the NIS howto.
> 
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