How to set up NISDOMAIN

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Hi,
I’m teaching System Administration, and in my NIS exercise I need to setup the NISDOMAINNAME at each boot.

Usually in CentOS this is done in /etc/sysconfig/network with the line
NISDOMAIN=xxxx

But in AlmaLinux it does not work. Any idea which file and variable to use to set up? I don’t want to use the line command “nisdomainname” after each boot!

The rest looks great, I love AlmaLinux, simple and very standard for teaching.

Thanks,
Daniel

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Problem solved!

It seems that in AlmaLinux you need to enable (with systemctl) the client ypbind to enable the system to read the NISDOMAIN variable in the file /etc/sysconfig/network at boot time.

In other Linux version, by enabling the server ypserv it did work. In AlmaLinux it’s the client that you need to enable. So you can’t create a server without having a client on the same machine.

Thanks for those who were looking for a solution, and here is the solution for those who were stuck with this problem.

Thanks,
Daniel