I'm trying to sort out a strange problem with nis - or at least, I think it's with nis. I haven't been able to find answers, including with an earlier post hear, so I was wondering if I could locate, perhaps, someone knowledgeable in the internal workings of nis, but I don't know how to go about that. Anyone with suggestions?
The problem I have is strange. I use nis for lookups for passwd, groups, hosts, etc, so that I can keep a central database on one server in my home LAN and not have to duplicate accounts, etc. The problem is with /etc/services. When I set up nsswitch.conf to use nis for servers, some commands no longer work properly. For instance, apt-get. If I try apt-get update or apt-get upgrade, they fail, stating that connections to my various apt sources are refused. However, when I edit nsswitch.conf so that servers uses the local file instead of nis, all works fine. I've tried ltrace'ing and strace'ing apt-get to see if I can spot where the problem lies, unsuccessfully. The same thing happens if I try to telnet to a specific port (eg telnet mail.foo.bar pop3), but only when services is being delivered via nis. I'm at a loss to figure out why this is the case. A test program to use getservicebyname works identically regardless of whether services is handled by nis or not. Any thoughts? NL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
