Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:46:52 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: NIS Message-ID: <199902230046.SAA09398@bga.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990222220701.asmodai@wxs.nl> References: <199902220047.SAA07717@bga.com> <XFMail.990222220701.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: > 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. Good! Progress is a good thing... > Still took long on bootup though... Well, One of my machines is an old 386 and I wouldn't know if it was slow or not. HeHe... > > 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 =) Well, since I didn't really have a slave server running but thought of trying it out I left well enough alone. Thanks for letting me know. It's one less process! > > 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. Let me know how this comes out. I've been trying out a few things and collecting stuff from the list here so that I can do a rewrite of the tutorial I put up. I actually know a little bit now.;-) (enough to be dangerous) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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