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From: "Bill Moran" <bill_moran2@hotmail.com>
To: hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com
Cc: adstro@stny.rr.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Handbook NIS/YP Instructions
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 13:51:43 -0500
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>From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@axp.csl.sri.com>
>
>portmap is also required for NIS.

True, and it says so in the handbook, which is the point I was trying
to make.

Speaking for myself, at least, following the handbook to the letter
got NIS working just fine.

-Bill

> > >From: Adam Stroud <adstro@stny.rr.com>
> > >
> > >Since NIS uses RPC,
> > >do I need to configure inetd.conf to allow RPC on the NIS server and
> > >clients?
> > >The handbook does not make any mention of editing the inetd.conf file.
> >
> > inetd doesn't handle RPC.
> >
> > Use the rc.conf settings suggested in the tutorial and the necessary rpc
> > servers will be started at boot time by /etc/rc
> >
> > Once you've got everything running, you can use
> > ps -ax | grep rpc
> > to see what rpc servers were started.  I don't actually remember what's
> > started for NIS, although I believe rpc.statd at least needs to run.
> >
> > -Bill


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