From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 27 20:44:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ns0.sitesnow.com (ns0.sitesnow.com [216.130.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932BA159FA for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gskouby@ns0.sitesnow.com) Received: from gskouby (helo=localhost) by ns0.sitesnow.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12E3Gx-000NZu-00 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:44:39 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:44:39 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Skouby To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: NIS client setup again Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I managed to get an NIS master server working. However, I managed to get one of the clients set up but I am struggling with the only other client that I need to set up. I have this in /etc/rc.conf: nisdomainname="example.net" nis_client_enable="YES" nis_client_flags="-S example.net,web.example.net" Within a couple of minutes after booting this client machine I see the ypbind in the ps -aux but then it disappears shortly after that and it appears that it never does its job because there is nothing in /var/yp except Makefile.dist. I edited host.conf to contain this: bind nis hosts I edited the master.passwd with vipw to contain the "magic cookie" at the end. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please. Any command that I issue such as ypcat master.passwd gives me: %ypcat master.passwd ypcat: no such map master.passwd.byname. reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain If i issue the ypbind -S example.net, web.example.net from the command line it goes through but soon it disappears from the ps -aux output and the binding is not made. Any suggestions to keep me from pulling my hair out? I searched the archives but found nothing really pertaining to my exact problem in there. Thank you very much. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message