Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:07:01 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <XFMail.990222220701.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <199902220047.SAA07717@bga.com>
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On 22-Feb-99 John Kenagy wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: > > On 21-Feb-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote, > > >> > > >> On 21-Feb-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > > >> > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote, > > >> >> On 20-Feb-99 Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > > > > If you want to try to get rpc.yppasswdd running, you can just type > > > 'rpc.yppasswdd <flags>' at the command line as root. No need to > > > reboot everytime. > > > > I know, I tried that and it appeared to work ok, but when trying to > > ypbind it appeared _not_ to work. That was before I added the server to > > ypservers > > > > I just tried it with localhost in ypservers, made the maps, and it > > still hangs at boot up but it does work on the command line now though. Well it works now, changed the ypservers entry to the hostname. Still took long on bootup though... > rpc.ypxfrd _is_ running on my server. I do not recall specifically > going about setting _that_ up when I started to do this, though. > A HA! A quick check of /etc/rc shows it starting there if it's flag is > not "NO". Now going back to the system configuration file shows _no_ > entry for ypxfrd so it will never be "NO". I'm not sure if I deleted > that line or what.;-) ypxfrd is _not_ necessary for a master server. Trust me on this one as I tested it =) > I noticed that you were not running the server as a client to > itself. I do that as well. I do not really understand all of the ins > and outs for that but Hal Stern's book seems to say that it is > desireable so as to handle possible mail problems. I wanted to get ypserv and rpc.yppasswdd running first, then start ypbind. Now to find exactly where it hang and where it continued. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl This is my Truth, tell me your's... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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