Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:29:06 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rpc.yppasswd not starting Message-ID: <200001261829.NAA54613@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Skouby <gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com> of "Wed, 26 Jan 2000 10:24:59 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001261018090.85445-100000@ns0.sitesnow.com>
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>Hello, >I have a simple NIS system setup here. >I have the master server (who is also a client) and one other client. >This is the rc.conf entry on the master: >nisdomainname="example.net" # Set to NIS domain if using NIS (or NO). >nis_server_enable="YES" # We're an NIS server (or NO). >nis_yppasswdd_enable="YES" # Run rpc.yppasswdd at boot time (or NO). >nis_yppasswdd_flags="-t /var/yp/master.passwd" # Flags to rpc.yppasswdd > #(if enabled). >nis_client_enable="YES" >nis_client_flags="-S example.net,web.example.net" > > >web# ls -alsoF /var/yp >total 44 > 1 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel - 512 Jan 25 22:14 ./ > 1 drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel - 512 Apr 23 1999 ../ >18 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 18176 Jan 25 21:56 Makefile >18 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel - 18176 Sep 16 17:48 Makefile.dist > 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jan 26 10:09 binding/ > 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Jan 26 10:03 example.net/ > 2 -rw------- 1 root wheel - 1267 Jan 26 09:36 master.passwd > 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 1095 Jan 26 09:36 passwd > 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel - 0 Jan 26 10:03 ypservers > > > > > >Everything is working fine except for I can't use yppasswd because of this >error: > >yppasswd: rpc.yppasswdd is not running on the NIS master server > > >I do a ps -aux and verify that rpc.yppassed is not starting at boot as it >should. Do I have something wrong in rc.conf? Thank you for your time > >iI am running: >3.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE It sounds like you have things more or less correct. Maybe it is trying to start at boot but running into an error somewhere and giving up. Have you tried looking for interesting messages in your log files? And have you tried starting it by hand to make sure it will run? -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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