any specific info on the yp Makefile? with the 2 extra "@", or is this updated
in one of the cooker rpm's (yp*.rpm) to where i should just update with that
particular rpm. etc.

On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Ya, I got NIS working with Mandrake 7.0.  It sure was a bitch though
> because they wrote the makefile wrong.
> You get that "Domain not bound" error when you do not have your NIS
> database built.  You have to type /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
> You then follow the instructions and it will attempt to build your
> database.  Unless yours is different then mine, it gave me two 'Command
> not found' errors while trying to build the group part.  Its because
> there are two extra @ symbols in the makefile that shouldn't be there. 
> After you remove them it will build correctly.  Then I had the problem
> where the clients knew the server was there and that the password and
> group data bases existed but it wouldn't let anyone login.  After
> playing with it a bit I found that you have to set merge the shadow with
> the password to 'true' in the makefile as well.  Not sure about the
> groups tho.  You might have to do those too.  See the NIS howto for more
> information.  I had to read it like 5 times before I finally understood
> what it was saying.
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