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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9397.0. "RIS help needed" by HYDRA::LAVIN () Fri Apr 04 1997 17:27



	I have set up a RIS server in the normal way using V4.0B of
DU and have applied all the necessary patches...I try to use the system
as an RIS server and when booting the client I get the error

	"Cannot determine RIS home directory  for "servername"


	It then fails to come up with a list of available subsets 
	and the install fails...Has anyone else seen this error. I have
	deinstalled and reinstalled the RIS software

	leo
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9397.1RE: RIS problemNETRIX::"[email protected]"Tom Reu - Digital UNIX InstallationTue Apr 08 1997 11:4918
It sounds like your server does not have a user name for ris, or the
/var/adm/ris directory is not set up correctly. The reason for the
failure is that the install procedure attempts the following call
which is failing:

rsh $SRV -l ris "/bin/pwd"
   SRV is the server name

As a result, the client cannot determine what the home directory is
on the server.

You need to find out why this call is failing.

Tom Reu
Digital UNIX Installation


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