Just FYI, I'm playing now with a fresh new vitual (VBOX) Ubuntu12.04 64bit (don't want to damage a more or less running system) and got the same behaviour with a non working nis environment. The only packages I added via apt- get are nis, autofs, tcsh, csh, nfs-kernel-server:
After a local login I did: # ypwhich ypwhich: Can't communicate with ypbind I also cannot find any process (i.e. ps -ef | grep yp) which seems to be related with ypbind! If I try to start ypbind: # start ypbind start: Job is already running: ypbind But I could not see it (again looking at the snapshot of the current processes with root privilegies)!! If i restart ypbind (# restart ypbind) process is obviously restarting and nis is running. >From my humble point of view this bug must pain a lot of Ubuntu user all over >the world. Alex -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to nis in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007293 Title: nis doesn't work anymore after upgrade to 12.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nis/+bug/1007293/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
