[H-GEN] amd

[David Makepeace]

I usually edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and remove all references to "nis" and
"nisplus" so
that each entry just has the "files" keyword and maybe "dns" for hosts. 
I've found
that amd will then start up quickly.  It must be looking up some
hostname which isn't
in the hosts file.

David.

Paul Gearon wrote:
> 
> I mentioned this yesterday on #humbug and I was wondering if anyone
> could help me please.
> 
> When amd starts on my machine (running RH5.1) it takes over a minute
> to start.  As a couple of people suggested yesterday, this is
> probably due to a name server timeout.  The thing is, I didn't have a
> name server set up for that machine (I do now - but it's my ISP and
> ppp doesn't start at boot so amd won't find it).  I also haven't done
> any fiddling with NFS, so I can't see why it would be looking for any
> other computers on the network.  In case it's relevant, the machine
> does have a network card in it, but currently isn't connected to any
> other machines, and didn't know about any other machines until ppp
> was configured.
> 
> Anyway, I went looking through /etc/amd.conf and I found the
> following:
> 
> /defaults fs:=${autodir}/${rhost}/root/${rfs};opts=nosuid,nodev
> *       rhost:=${key};type:=host;rfs:=/
> 
> Unfortunately I con't see how this relates to the man/info pages for
> amd.conf.
> 
> The problem isn't critical (amd _does_ finally start) but it is
> really annoying.  Any suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> Paul
> Paul Gearon
> gearon at computer.org
> 
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