NFS Services Administrator's Guide

NIS+ Error Messages
Appendix A370
**ERROR: chkey failed again. Please contact your network
administrator to verify your network password.
This message indicates that you typed the wrong network password.
• If this is the first time you are initializing this machine, contact your
network administrator to verify the network password.
• If this machine has been initialized before as an NIS+ client of the
same domain, try typing the root login password at the secure RPC
password prompt.
• If this machine is currently an NIS+ client and you are trying to
change it to a client of a different domain, remove the
/etc/.rootkey file, and then rerun the nisclient script, using the
network password given to you by your network administrator (or
the network password generated by the nispopulate script).
Error: Could not create a valid NIS+ coldstart file
This message is from nisinit, the NIS+ initialization routine. It is
followed by another message preceded by a string that begins
“lookup:..”. This second message will explain why a valid NIS+
coldstart file could not be created.
**ERROR: could not restore file filename
This message indicates that NIS+ was unable to rename
filename.no_nisplus to filename.
Check your system console for system error messages.
• If there is a system error message, fix the problem described in the
error message and then rerun nisclient -i.
• If there aren’t any system error messages, try renaming this file
manually, and then rerun nisclient -i.
**ERROR: Couldn’t get the server NIS+_server’s address.
The script was unable to retrieve the server’s IP address for the specified
domain. Manually add the IP address for the server NIS+_server into
the /etc/hosts file, then rerun nisclient -i.
**ERROR: directory directory-path does not exist.
This message indicates that you typed an incorrect directory path. Type
the correct directory path.