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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:55:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2-R: problem with inetd and NIS 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221154220.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199906212206.AA264992771@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>

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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:

> >> 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.

Did you shutdown inetd totally then restart it?  Apparently kill -HUP
inetd doesn't quite work correctly for certain configuration files.  

Doug White                               
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