04-30-2009
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Originally Posted by
StarSol
reboot -- -s did not work either... same behavior
I do not find /etc/defaultdomain when in multi-user mode. Are you saying it should be there when I boot from CD? I am using Solaris 8
Tried fsck and fixed all reported errors. Then did "set-defaluts" at the ok> prompt, reset-all once more then boot up in single-user mode but failed again!
Other thought??
Ok, now I'm a little confused...
You can boot the box to multi-user mode to look at /etc/defaultdomain but not on single user mode? It wouldn't be on the CD, it would be on your hard drive.
what I was saying is that, in my experience of a box booting up and stopping forever after the hostname is displayed in the boot process, the reason why that happened was because the box was part of a NIS domain, which is declared in /etc/defaultdomain, and the server could not see the domain master, therefore it hung forever waiting for the master to respond.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
defaultdomain
defaultdomain(4) File Formats defaultdomain(4)
NAME
defaultdomain - specify host's domain name
SYNOPSIS
/etc/defaultdomain
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/defaultdomain determines a host's domain name for direct use by the NIS and NIS+ name services. The defaultdomain file is
read at boot time and its contents used by the domainname(1M) command. Because of its use by domainname, defaultdomain is also used by the
LDAP service (see ldap(1)). Under certain, narrow circumstances (see resolv.conf(4)), because domainname uses defaultdomain, a DNS client
can use the contents of defaultdomain.
The contents of defaultdomain consists of a single line containing a host's domain name.
SEE ALSO
NIS+(1), uname(1), ldapclient(1M), nisclient(1M), ypbind(1M), ypinit(1M), resolv.conf(4)
NOTES
The defaultdomain file is created and modified by Solaris installation and configuration scripts. Only users knowledgeable of name service
configuration should edit the file.
SunOS 5.11 22 February 2000 defaultdomain(4)