IRIDIA cluster server daemons - Revision history

Mmanfrin: /* NIS */

2005-06-27T15:57:30Z

NIS

2005-06-27T15:55:06Z

NIS

2005-06-27T15:42:44Z

DHCP

2005-06-27T15:40:32Z

DHCP

2005-06-27T15:37:43Z

Firewall

2005-06-27T15:36:49Z

DCHP

2005-06-27T15:36:12Z

Firewall

2005-06-27T15:35:07Z

Firewall

2005-06-27T14:42:27Z

Firewall

2005-02-22T10:35:28Z

Added informations about changes in /etc/nsswitch.conf

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 </pre>
-<tt>majorana</tt> is the NIS master server and <tt>polyphemus</tt> is a slave server. The purpose of a slave server is to answer NIS requests when the master server is down. Information about how to configure the servers and the clients can be found in:
+<tt>majorana</tt> is the NIS master server and <tt>polyphemus</tt> is a slave server. The purpose of a slave server is to answer NIS requests when the master server is down or too slow in responding to requests. Information about how to configure the servers and the clients can be found in:
 <pre>
 /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz

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 == NIS ==
-The Network Information System (NIS, formerly Yellow Pages) should be installed so that the . First install packages for shadow passwords:
+The Network Information System (NIS, formerly Yellow Pages) should be installed. First install packages for shadow passwords:
 <pre>
 apt-get install passwd nis

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 <pre>
 .168.100.1:           polyphemus (p01)
-.168.100.2 - 99:      p02-p99 (diskless nodes)
+.168.100.2 - 100:      p02-p100 (diskless nodes)
 .168.100.101:         majorana (r01)
-.168.100.102 - 254    r02-r155
+.168.100.102 - 254    r02-r154
 </pre>

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 .168.100.1:           polyphemus (p01)
 .168.100.2 - 99:      p02-p99 (diskless nodes)
-.168.100.100:         majorana (r01)
+.168.100.101:         majorana (r01)
-.168.100.101 - 254    r02-r155
+.168.100.102 - 254    r02-r155
 </pre>

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 Setup the firewall to accept any connections from the cluster network(192.168.100.0/24) on majorana.
-'''Note:''' before copying the firewall rules from the backup of /etc/firestater/ be sure that the syntax is "compatible" in case a newer version (> 1.0.3) of the package is installed.
+'''Note:''' ''before copying the firewall rules from the backup of /etc/firestater/ be sure that the syntax is "compatible" in case a newer version (> 1.0.3) of the package is installed.''
 == DHCP ==

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 '''Note:''' before copying the firewall rules from the backup of /etc/firestater/ be sure that the syntax is "compatible" in case a newer version (> 1.0.3) of the package is installed.
-== DCHP ==
+== DHCP ==
 A DHCP daemon should be installed on majorana so that IPs are given to the cluster nodes depending on their MAC address. When installing DCHP notice that the package dhcp3 could give some trouble with the /dev/rtc (real-time clock). However, the package named just dhcp seems to work.

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	Setup the firewall to accept any connections from the cluster network(192.168.100.0/24) on majorana.		Setup the firewall to accept any connections from the cluster network(192.168.100.0/24) on majorana.
		+
		+	'''Note:''' the current firewall rules are in /etc/firestater/ in case restore from the backup.

	== DCHP ==		== DCHP ==

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:35, 22 February 2005
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	Remember to add the last line of the passwd, group, and shadow file: "+::0:0:::" in passwd, "+::::::::"in shadow, etc. See the documentation that comes with NIS package for more details.		Remember to add the last line of the passwd, group, and shadow file: "+::0:0:::" in passwd, "+::::::::"in shadow, etc. See the documentation that comes with NIS package for more details.
		+
		+	Finally modify the file /etc/nsswitch.conf to look like:
		+	<pre>
		+	passwd: compat
		+	group: compat
		+	shadow: compat
		+	hosts: files nis dns
		+	networks: files
		+	protocols: db files nis
		+	services: db files nis
		+	ethers: db files
		+	rpc: db files nis
		+	</pre>

	TODO: We need a copy of the configuration file here.		TODO: We need a copy of the configuration file here.