From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 19:22:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCA437B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt20.cluster1.charter.net (remt20.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A4B43FAF for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) Received: from [24.158.214.251] (HELO gforce.johnson.home) by remt20.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 95627995; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:22:39 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.johnson.home (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6I2MXn3000770; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:22:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glennpj@charter.net) From: Glenn Johnson To: Callum Gibson In-Reply-To: <20030718004829.GC75506@merton.aus.deuba.com> References: <20030718004829.GC75506@merton.aus.deuba.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1058494953.709.7.camel@gforce.johnson.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 17 Jul 2003 21:22:33 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/services and NIS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 02:22:41 -0000 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