Adding the +::::: lines seems to have fixed it. I'm not the sysadmin here I haven't used NIS on ubuntu before, and our administrator must have thought things were setup as in FC5.
I'm sorry for the trouble, and thank you for your help. -- NIS is broken since recent feisty updates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119088 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
