Yes, the NIS server is always running and the other users are using it
from their workstations (RH, Fedora) to authenticate and have their homes
mounted via NFS.
Btw, on my Gentoo I am using a 2.4.28-gentoo-r7 kernel
# epm -q ypbind yp-tools
ypbind-1.17.2-r1
yp-tools-2.8
# head /etc/init.d/ypbind
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-nds/ypbind/files/ypbind.initd,v 1.2
2004/10/26 06:25:53 eradicator Exp $
depend() {
need net portmap domainname
use ypserv
}
# cat /etc/conf.d/ypbind
# Config file for /etc/init.d/ypbind
# Set any command line options you want to pass to ypbind.
YPBIND_OPTS=""
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