From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 15 07:28:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA20440 for current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:28:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA20430 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:28:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA12425; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:27:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:27:46 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: jmg@nike Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Bill Paul cc: Developer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP - PROBLEM WITH NIS In-Reply-To: <199611142046.PAA27723@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Bill Paul wrote: > - Somehow, yp_mkdb is broken. You can test this by running yp_mkdb -c > manually. Start ypserv with the -d flag to see debug messages, then > run yp_mkdb -c from another session; ypserv should tell you when the > YPPROC_CLEAR message is received. thank you for this hit... I decided to take a look at /var/yp/Makefile (as I was having this same problem)... and found that yp_mkdb was not being run with the -c flag... I simply added that and now it all works as it should... just for your information I'm running 960801-SNAP... thanks for your words of advise... ttyl... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)