Solaris

Hello All!

please help. I have a solaris8 server (NIS client) that lost network connectivity to NIS master server. After restoring connectivity to NIS master server, I can't access the server.

1. The server responds to ping.
2. Telnet -- after it authenticates I do not get a prompt.
3. ssh does not work.
4. At the console, I am able to see console messages but I do not get the prompt.

When you login at the console can you execute commands? I have seen a few rare cases where the PS1 variable is set to nothing therefore no prompt appears. Try a few commands even though there is no prompt. If that works set your PS1 variable in your login script to what you want your prompt to be.

I don't know what the significance of "NIS client" is in relation to your problem, but from the console can you use the escape

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to get back to lom and power off / power on?

Was the server restared recently. Did something change on the server itself recently that you can think of?

what kind of server is it? how do you start your console session?