netbsd-help: Re: amd and nis?

Subject: Re: amd and nis?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/23/2005 18:38:52

Alexander Klink wrote:
> Starting amd (which somehow only works using forcestart?) 
Do you have amd=YES in /etc/rc.conf ? 
$ man rc.d |col -bx \
 |sed -ne'/force/,/^$/ s/^ //p'
force Skips the rc.conf(5) check, ignores a failure result from
 any of the prerequisite checks, executes the command, and
 always returns a zero exit status. Sets rc_force=yes.
Skipping "the rc.conf check" implies (rather subtly, IMHO) that amd=NO --
or no entry at all -- won't prevent amd from being started. 
> Any help to make my NetBSD experience more worthwile
NetBSD's manual is generally excellent, which is more than I can say for
Linux distros I've tried. I'm sure I don't know what I'd do without
section 5, for one. 
One caveat: NetBSD imports several subsystems e.g. bind, X, postfix, GNU
stuff. The manuals for them sometimes lack NetBSD specifics. For
instance, named(8) says the default configuration file is /etc/named.conf,
which is so. It doesn't mention that NetBSD's out-of-the-box setup has
/etc/namedb/named.conf instead, or that the usual way to start it is with
this line in rc.conf:
	named=YES named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
I'm sure other people are more savvy, but it took me a few iterations to
get all that. 
HTH.
--jkl