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Date:      17 Jul 2003 21:22:33 -0500
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        Callum Gibson <callum.gibson@db.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /etc/services and NIS
Message-ID:  <1058494953.709.7.camel@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <20030718004829.GC75506@merton.aus.deuba.com>
References:  <20030718004829.GC75506@merton.aus.deuba.com>

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On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 19:48, Callum Gibson wrote:
> Does anyone know if you need to reboot for the + in /etc/services to
> take effect? I've added a + at the end of /etc/services on my FreeBSD
> 4.8-RELEASE box but getservbyname calls still fail unless I have the
> service entries explictly entered into the file. A "ypcat services"
> works fine so NIS is okay. Is this supposed to work?

You have remake your NIS maps.  Go to /var/yp and type make as root.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net




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