Looks like your machines had a falling out with each other. What do you know of in your configuration that would cause NIS to not pass authorization/authentication between machines? Any new binaries? IDS? tack On 31 Aug 2001, John Hunter wrote: > > We are using solaris 2.7 as a yp server. Last night when trying to > add a new user I got an RPC error message 'Create clnt failure: RPC: > Program not registered'. I did '/etc/init.d/rpc stop' then 'start' > and this seemed to fix the new user problem. > > This morning it appears that the mail server is down. I found the > following in /var/log/syslog > > Aug 31 07:31:03 ace.bsd.uchicago.edu sendmail[4480]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cann > ot bind to map mail.aliases in domain dream: can't communicate with rpcbind: No > such file or directory > > Any thoughts about what I need to do to revive this sucker? > > But wait! How can I read the responses if my mail server is down. > Catch 22! > > thanks, > John Hunter > -- ------------------------------------------ 1st Amendment: Void where prohibited http://freesklyarov.org http://www.anti-dmca.org
