From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 15: 6:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (BROCCOLI.GRAPHICS.CORNELL.EDU [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D17114E9A; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA264992771; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:06:11 -0400 Message-Id: <199906212206.AA264992771@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-R: problem with inetd and NIS In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:40:18 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:06:11 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature. It doesn't seem to >> be in the release notes so perhaps that makes it a bug. :-) >> >> I am putting an entry in inetd.conf with a non-root user field. >> This user is defined in NIS rather than in /etc/master.passwd. >> On 3.0-R and 3.1-R this works. On 3.2-R when I HUP inetd I get: >> "No such user 'user', service ignored". Putting a non-NIS entry >> into master.passwd for this user does get inetd to start the >> service. > >This begs the question, is NIS working? How did you activate NIS? Yes, NIS is working for everything except inetd in 3.2-R. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message