Hi, I don't really understand what's happening here, but ypbind seems to fail at start-up, maybe because it is started too early?
Here is the syslog (notre how the time tags are out of order): Aug 19 10:16:16 kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Aug 19 10:16:16 nfslock: rpc.lockd startup succeeded Aug 19 10:16:16 rpc.statd[964]: Version 1.0.1 Starting Aug 19 10:16:16 nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded Aug 19 10:16:16 rpc.statd[964]: unable to register (statd, 1, udp). Aug 19 10:16:16 ypbind[981]: Unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp). Aug 19 10:16:16 ypbind: ypbind startup succeeded <...> Aug 19 10:15:44 date: Mon Aug 19 10:15:44 PDT 2002 Aug 19 10:15:44 rc.sysinit: Setting clock (localtime): Mon Aug 19 10:15:44 PDT 2002 succeeded Aug 19 10:15:44 rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded Aug 19 10:15:44 rc.sysinit: Setting hostname eral.eng.trimble.com: succeeded Aug 19 10:15:44 rc.sysinit: Setting NIS domain name hpux_nis: succeeded Once the machine is up, I can restart ypbind: $ sudo /etc/init.d/ypbind restart Shutting down NIS services: [FAILED] Binding to the NIS domain... [ OK ] Listening for an NIS domain server: my.ntp.server Weird. =-= kk1
