In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George A. Dowding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greetings, > >I have done two slink->potato upgrades. For the most part the went >fairly smooth (aside from the unalignment problem). The server that >is set up as a shell box has had no problems with nis. However on the >machine I use for more administrative purposes (bind, dhcp, samba, >etc.) I cannot get nis to work. > >Here is the message I get in /var/log/daemon.log > >ayes ypbind[31584]: (unable to register YPBINDPROG YPBINDVERS, udp) >ayes icmplogd: destination unreachable from localhost [127.0.0.1]
It means the portmapper is not running (/sbin/portmap). It is part of the "netbase" package. Mike. -- "quote me on this one - overgaan op Exchange is een wijs besluit" -- MarcoH. -- The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)

