From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 2 12:16:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA17345 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 12:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fang.cs.sunyit.edu (chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu [192.52.220.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA17339 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 12:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chuck@localhost) by fang.cs.sunyit.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA16079 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 May 1997 15:16:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 15:16:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Green Message-Id: <199705021916.PAA16079@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: NIS and /etc/rpc Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was playing around with adding CDE to a freebsd 2.2.1 system running as a nis client and I noticed that none of the rpc services that the CDE installation added to /etc/rpc were being recognized by the system. (inetd was reporting that csmd and ttdbserver were unknown RPC services). As it turns out the only way I could get them recognized was by adding them to the nis server. Shouldn't a nis client system access both the local and the nis rpc services? -- Charles Green, PRC Inc. Rome Laboratory, NY