Re: Anyone Develop NIS Problems after any recent 8_Recommended Patch Clusters?

From: Barton Fisk (bafisk_at_bellsouth.NOSPAM)
Date: 09/30/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:17 -0500

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 07:41:31 -0700, Rhugga <rhugga@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I patched out Master and Slave NIS servers this weekend and now NIS is
> broken. (currently working with Sun support but want to squeeze all my
> resources so my users don't hang me in a couple hours)
>
> The last patch cluster I applied to these systems prior to this weekend
> was download Aug 14 2003 and installed Aug 14 2003.
>
> Saturday I downloaded the leatest patch cluster and applied it.
>
> If someone has experienced problems or know anything related to this, let
> me know, and I will forward info.

Do yourself a favor and use one of the patch programs like patchpro, or
patchchk next time.

These will attempt to determine only the needed patches based on your
installed packages. They are not perfect, but will give you a bit more
granular control over your patches. 

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