On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:16:12 +1000 (EST), Daniel Robert Franklin wrote: > I have recently been trying to set up a Sun IPX as a NIS server for a small > lab full of Linux machines. However, the installation of the NIS package > hangs at the point where it tries to start ypbind. I have seen the same > problem with setting up a NIS client on another IPX, but with slink rather > than potato which I am using here. > > Is this a known problem or have I screwed something up? Pretty much > everything else on this Sun works great (much faster than Solaris!).
Same problem over here with a Sun IPC NIS client trying to connect to an SGI IRIX 6.4 NIS server: ypbind hangs. I've tried to supply the NIS domain and the NIS server in /etc/yp.conf, but with the same result. After putting an "exit" at the first line of /etc/init.d/nis I was able to boot properly, but without NIS. Starting ypbind by hand sometimes helps when you start it twice: the second ypbind process is sometimes able to communicate with the server. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2785859 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
