SUMMARY: Solaris 2.5.1 Jumpstart

From: Jeffrey Liu (jliu@mail.aptix.com)
Date: Thu Mar 19 1998 - 12:14:39 CST


Thanks to Casper Dik, casper@holland.sun.com, who point to a right
and simply answer: define 'timehost' on NIS. It works.

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>From casper@holland.Sun.COM Thu Mar 19 00:35:59 1998
To: jliu@extsvr.aptix.com (Jeffrey Liu)
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Subject: Re: Solaris 2.5.1 Jumpstart
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:26:37 +0100
From: Casper Dik <casper@holland.Sun.COM>

>
>I've setup a Solaris 2.5.1 jumpstart server.
>When client boot from server, it goes to interactive mode to
>confirm date/time. But we already setup NIS timezone.
>root@axws6 286 # ypcat timezone
>US/Pacific aptix.com
>And we use snoop to trace the packages, (axws4 is client and axws6 is server)
>....
>581 0.00251 axws4 -> axws6 NFS C LOOKUP3 FH=0D18 Pacific
>582 0.00068 axws6 -> axws4 NFS R LOOKUP3 OK FH=887F
>583 0.00370 axws4 -> axws6 NFS C LOOKUP3 FH=E5D0 TIMEZONE
>584 0.00121 axws6 -> axws4 NFS R LOOKUP3 OK FH=740B
>585 0.00262 axws4 -> axws6 NFS C READLINK3 FH=740B
>586 0.00098 axws6 -> axws4 NFS R READLINK3 OK (Path=./default/in
>it)
>.....
>Is the timezone been checked or not?

Timezone and settign time of day are not related.

You need to define a "timehost" in NIS.

Casper

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