Re: potato NIS
Marcin Kurc <siemce@linux.indtech.edu> writes:
> I have upgraded to potato with NIS 3.4-1. Everything worked fine with slink NIS package but now I cannot connect to NIS master. For example, ypcat passwd output:
>
> [root@jabol:/etc]# ypcat passwd
> yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
> No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Internal NIS error
>
> Does anybody know whats wrong?
>
i had the same problem. this is because ypserv dies every time a
client tries to access the master. i got around this by recompiling
the package on my system. didn't feel like investigating too much why
ypserv in the maintainer's package dies. hope this helps.
--alex--
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