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Could anyone one help me regarding NIS setup in solaris 8,i've done it several times before ,but in one of our systems after running "ypinit -m" on server it says:
"could not get domain for local host.check your path"

by the way i've defined my domainname in /etc/defaultdomain file & also with domainname command & when i reboot the machine it detects the NIS domain....
but i don't know what this message mean.
your comments would be helpfull.

Rgrds,
Nikk

Sunsolve mentions it a few times but gives only one suggestion on fixing (which is dated but may still work)

Edit /usr/sbin/ypinit

Comment out line 156

Code:

   150
   151  def_dom=`domainname`
   152
   153  if [ $? -ne 0 ]
   154  then
   155          echo "^GCan't get local host's domain name.  Please check your path."
   156  #       exit 1
   157  fi
   158
   159  if [ -z "$def_dom" ]
   160  then
   161          echo "^GThe local host's domain name hasn't been set.  Please set it."
   162          exit 1
   163  fi

added code tags for readability --oombera