From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 3 12:42:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04827 for current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA04816 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 12:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id PAA07771 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:42:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: NIS Setup Question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... Just installed 2.2-960801-SNAP last night, and moved most of the load/administrative functions off of my 2.1-STABLE box over to it, including NIS... Now, for some reason that I've yet to figure, NIS doesn't work right. I'm running 'rpc.yypasswdd -m /etc/master.passwd -s -f', so that updates go properly to my /etc/master.passwd file, but if I try to change a pasword on one of my client machines, I get, in /var/log/messages on the server machine: Aug 3 15:35:24 quagmire rpc.yppasswdd[7708]: /var/yp/master.passwd: No such file or directory But I don't want it in /var/yp, and I'm explicitly telling it, according to the man page (or how I interpreted the man page, at least), to use /etc/master.passwd... Have I missed something, or did NIS get broken at some point? Thanks... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org