also sprach gabriel rosenkoetter (on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:53:47PM -0500): > Um, well, NIS/YP *always* uses portmap. That's how RPC services work.
thought so... > ... but you don't want to be a YP client, and you should be able to > tell xdm this somehow. > > What starts xdm? Something in rc? There should be a flag or variable > set there that's causing this yp-client request behavior. it's started from rc via the script /etc/init.d/xdm, which basically calls /usr/bin/X11/xdm with absolutely no arguments. and i tried just running xdm as root from the command line to no avail. i furthermore can't find anything on NIS/yp/RPC in xdm(1), xdm.options(5), grepping /etc/X11 returns nothing usable, and this and that. basically i don't know why it thinks it has to look for an NIS master at 127.0.0.1, which make as little sense as my mom talking technology. because the request goes to 127.0.0.1, i am actually tempted to believe that this is something else but NIS/yp, still using portmap, but not using the yp stuff. any thoughts? martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.