Subject: Re: Back again: NIS does not work.
To: Grey Wolf <greywolf@siteROCK.com>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 09/15/2000 23:45:47
On Fri Sep 15 2000 at 13:27:23 -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
>
> - ypserv starts and appears to run
>
> - rpc.yppasswdd starts and appears to run
>
> - ypbind hangs
>
> `domainname` is non-null. I'm missing something, here.
IIRC this happened to me also because of some leftover crud in
/etc/rc.d. rm it entirely and do a fresh make install, that's what
helped me.
--
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi> Of course he runs NetBSD.