Hi,

After what must be the sixtieth attempt at setting up a NIS server on my
NetBSD 1.4.2 Alpha, here is a plea for help:

I do the following to set up NIS: (the domainname is set to kerguelen)
cd /var/yp
ypinit -m
[enter server name]
ypserv -d
ypbind
make

During the make, apart from a lot of unaligned access errors, for every map that
is made, I get the error 'yppush: error finding master for <map> in kerguelen:
No such key in map'. 

When I then try 'ypcat passwd', I get an empty map (no errors, just no output).
A 'makedbm -u passwd.byname' in /var/yp/kerguelen yields the following:
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YP_MASTER_NAME
YP_LAST_MODIFIED 0968153840
mud
ftp ftp:*:1005:1001:FTP pseudo-user:/home/ftp:/sbin/nologin
majordom majordom:<passwd>:1004:1002:Majordomo pseudo-user:/home/majordom:/usr/local/bin/bash
www www:<passwd>:1002:1000:WWW pseudo-user:/home/www:/usr/local/bin/bash
jaapb
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I'm at a loss. Can anyone tell me what is happening here?

  Jaap Boender
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