Marcin Kurc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have upgraded to potato with NIS 3.4-1. Everything worked fine with slink > NIS package but now I cannot connect to NIS master. For example, ypcat passwd > output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc]# ypcat passwd > yp_all: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out > No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Internal NIS error > > Does anybody know whats wrong? >
i had the same problem. this is because ypserv dies every time a client tries to access the master. i got around this by recompiling the package on my system. didn't feel like investigating too much why ypserv in the maintainer's package dies. hope this helps. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
