On 03/12/18 at 14:51, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > On 12/3/18 5:22 AM, g4sra wrote: >> >From my perspective, this topic has had some very interesting >> contributions. Thank you all whom have contributed. >> >> To pick out just one as an example, I had considered NIS\YP to be (or >> rather didn't consider because) all but defunct, and not taken it's >> simplicity and reliability over other methods into consideration. > > NIS/YP is especially interesting for me as something long unused.
Sorry to bring you these sorry news, people, but Dr. Nikolaus Klepp is right: NIS really has kicked the bucket: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1001786/nis-removed-from-testing/ nis REMOVED from testing News for package nis <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nis> * *From*: Debian testing watch <nore...@release.debian.org> <mailto:nore...@release.debian.org> * *To*: <n...@packages.debian.org> <mailto:n...@packages.debian.org> * *Date*: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 04:39:20 +0000 * *Subject*: nis REMOVED from testing FYI: The status of the nis source package in Debian's testing distribution has changed. Previous version: 3.17.1-3 Current version: (not in testing) Hint: <https://release.debian.org/britney/hints/auto-removals> Bug #834298: nis: Can't ypbind Interesting read: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834298 From: Elimar Riesebieter <riese...@lxtec.de> To: Mark Brown <broo...@debian.org> Cc: 834...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: nis: Can't ypbind Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:52:35 +0200 control reopen +1 * Mark Brown <broo...@debian.org> [2016-08-16 12:11 +0100]: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:02:06PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > since 3.17-35 I can't bind to my nisserver anymore. Downgrading to > > 3.17-34 succeeded. Please notice: > > This appears to be some change that's systemd related, AFAICT it works > fine outside of systemd but gets killed when running inside systemd. > I'm assuming that the dbus integration was causing systemd to notice > that it was still running. My server is a sysvinit system. Can't bind from either a sysvinit Desktop nor a systemd Desktop the sysvinit server. Nevertheless why don't we update to ypbind-mt-1.38? Elimar -- Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE
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