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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 1995 18:55:03 -0400
From:      "House of Debuggin'" <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, pascal@TFS.COM, phk@ref.tfs.com
Subject:   RE: NIS woes with 2.0.5-RELEASE...
Message-ID:  <199506162255.SAA06692@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>

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>> I've installed 2.0.5-RELEASE on my 485/50 at work.  The install went
>> fine.  But after configuring to use NIS I'm running into several
>> binaries that report:
>>
>>       yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Procedure unavailable
>>
>> I've confirmed that I can see my NIS server and I can dump various
>> maps using ypcat.  I have tracked down this error message to
>> /usr/src/lib/libc/yp/yplib.c (line #687).
>>
>Uhm, Freeman

>Do you actually >HAVE< a NIS server ?  I thought you only ran NIS+ ?

Oh blast... I swear, I hate Sun. I really do. The Solaris rpc.nisd is
supposed to be able to work with NIS v2 clients in 'compatibility mode'
but it would be just my luck that this 'compatibility' didn't include
support for the YPPROC_ORDER call. That implies a great deal of stupidity
on Sun's part, however. I wouldn't put it past them, but it's unlikely.

It could be that the 'compatibility mode' isn't set up right, but since
I don't run NIS+, I can't confirm this.

If anybody out there has NIS+ running on their network and can check
this for me, I'd love to hear from you.

Unfortunately, the yp_order() call gets used during NIS password lookups:
I needed a quick way to check for the presence of a 'master.passwd.byname'
or 'master.passwd.byuid' map, and trying to do a yp_order() on it seemed
like a good idea at the time. The fact that the yp_order() fails shouldn't
hurt, except it looks like Theo DeRaadt set up the yp_order() function
to loop forever until clnt_call() returns RPC_SUCCESS. This is exactly
the sort of thing I was trying to avoid too. Bah.

Sounds like something else that needs to be added to my to-do list.

-Bill

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