Hi, all: I am seeing some problems during kickstarting NIS clients. More specifically, nsswitch.conf is interfering with subsequent %post scripts commands. This is with Redhat 6.2. I used following ks.cfg directive to configure my NIS client: auth --useshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain mydomain --nisserver myserver In my %post section, I have commands to delete extra system accounts. These commands cause the system to try to contact NIS server, even though portmapper and ypbind have not been configured/started yet. The result is that every subsequent commands has to wait for rpc calls to timeout. A installation which normally takes 7 minutes now takes over 50 minutes. My workaround is to manually install all rpms, create config files and nsswitch.conf at the very end of %post scripts and not to use --enablenis options in above auth directive. I am wondering if this is a known bug and if there is a better way to configure NIS client during kickstart. Yiping Zhang
