Background: We are running NIS and have NFS mounts from a Solaris 10 workstation to a Solaris 8 server.
If the workstation loses its network connection for some reason, when I look at the workstation's console I see repeated messages of the form:
<date> <time> <hostname> ypbind[<pid>]: NIS server not responding for domain "<domain>"; still trying.
If I try to login at the console as a user, it won't work because it can't authenticate my account through NIS. Also, it won't return to a login prompt again, so I can't log in as root.
If I press the power
button (don't hold it in) on the workstation, I see:
<date> <time> <hostname> power: WARNING: Power off requested from power
button or SC, powering down the system!
Shutdown started. <date> <time>
Changing to init state 5 - please wait.
<date> <time+2 minutes> <hostname> power: WARNING: Failed to shut down the system!
And continue to see messages of the form:
<date> <time> <hostname> ypbind[<pid>]: NIS server not responding for domain "<domain>"; still trying.
So, the questions are
How do I make NIS stop trying (because I know it will fail)?
Why won't it shut down?
