Bug 20940

 Ops, sorry I read the option B later on =)
 Whats the proper way of lefting out local entries for root? its not
 mentioned in the man pages or anywhere...
 thanks,
 Evren
 
 On 30 Aug 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
 
 > yurtesen@ispro.net.tr writes:
 > > When I have nis_client_enable="YES" in my /etc/rc.conf file the boot
 > > process is haning at line
 > > chown root:wheel /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*
 > > of the /etc/rc file when I comment out this line the machine boots
 > > correctly. The same happened in 2 different machines I use here.
 > > Somebody may lock out himself when rebooting the machine or they
 > > might need to go to system room to press ctrl-c to cancel chown and
 > > continue booting. After a power failure machines would not boot
 > > correctly! So this is kinda serious problem I guess... ?
 > 
 > This comes from a combination of:
 > 
 >  a) you have enabled NIS without properly configuring a NIS server, or
 >     (the connection to) your NIS server is down
 > 
 >  b) you have (improperly) left out local entries for root and wheel in
 >     your password and group files.
 > 
 > DES
 > -- 
 > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
 >