From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 22 09:35:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA23179 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 09:35:09 -0800 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA23167 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 09:35:05 -0800 Received: from olympus by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id LAA08281; Wed, 22 Feb 1995 11:34:24 -0600 Received: by olympus (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA18781; Wed, 22 Feb 95 11:32:57 CST From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Message-Id: <9502221732.AA18781@olympus> Subject: Re: YP and FreeBSD To: sjlai@mac20.ct.monash.edu.au (Simon Lai) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 11:32:56 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502220411.PAA10760@mac20.ct.monash.edu.au> from "Simon Lai" at Feb 22, 95 03:11:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1043 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Hi, > > Does anyone have this working yet ? > > I am trying to get YP and amd going. An OSF/1 host is serving. > > The ypbind and ypwhich man pages do not seem to be there. > > I have added the "+" entry to /etc/passwd (using vipw). I have > run ypbind (which from looking at the source takes only -ypset > and -ypsetme arguments). ypwhich complains that it cannot talk > to ypbind. > > Suggestions ? > > simon > > the vipw entry should be +::::::::: the /etc/group entry +::: and I put this in /etc/rc.local if [ -f /etc/defaultdomain ] ; then domainname `cat /etc/defaultdomain` fi dname=`domainname` if [ -n $dname ] ; then ypbind fi and fixed /etc/defaultdomain accordingly. ypwhich works for me. the mail alias stuff doesn't and I have to hack that by hand. Good Luck, Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________