Subject: Re: Back again: NIS does not work.
To: Grey Wolf <greywolf@siteROCK.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 09/16/2000 15:59:37
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 01:27:23PM -0700, Grey Wolf wrote:
> NIS/YP hosed.
> 
> Server: NetBSD/sparc 1.5E; Client: NetBSD/i386 1.5E
> 
> - replaced portmap with rpcbind
> 
> - installed /etc/netconfig
> 
> - "make build" got at least far into the build as to rebuild libc and
>   libutil

Did librpcsvc got rebuilt ?

> 
> - ypserv starts and appears to run
> 
> - rpc.yppasswdd starts and appears to run
> 
> - ypbind hangs
> 
> `domainname` is non-null.  I'm missing something, here.

Make sure your /etc/services & al are up to date.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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