On Apr 04, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Nick Cabatoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >and what I can do about it? > > Usually it is a very good idea to list the NIS servers directly > in /etc/yp.conf instead of relying on broadcasts (the default if > /etc/yp.conf is empty), it makes the NIS client stuff a bit more > reliable. /etc/init.d/nis stop and start after that.
I gave that a try, but it doesn't seem to have helped. It looks like it's a question of our network being saturated during the execution of certain cronjobs. Time to buy that new switch, I guess. Thanks very much for your informative reply.
