Re: please read this everyone
James Waterhouse <james.waterhouse@videotron.ca> writes:
> Hello everyone,
> thanks for taking the time to read this. I'm a new user of debian
> and I seem to be having troubles. I'm running ypbind on a mac (running
> debian-68k 2.2) and I cannot get it to bind to my nis server (I've had
> no problems with any of the other computers I have set up). When I run
> "ypbind -broadcast" ypbind just exist. My network is good cause as I
> said I have other computers using the nis server. I can also reach the
> dns server from the troubled computer and mount nis volumes, ftp, http,
> etc. When I place a ypserver line in my /etc/yp.conf file the "ypbind
> -c" command says the file is alright but when I run "ypbind" it
> segfaults. The only way I can get ypbind to work is by starting it with
> the following "ypbind -debug -broadcast -ypsetme" and then using ypset
> to set the nis server. Even then though it dies unexpectidly at times.
> Has this happened to anyone else? If you can test this then please do.
> For all those interested I am running debian-68k (the mac version)
> potato 2.2 (the latest one) on a mac LC 630. If you have any feedback
> the please CC it to my email address james.waterhouse@videotron.ca
> because I am not signed up to either debian-devel or debian-user.
> Thanks for your time.
> James
James,
please use a "better" subject line. I have no idea what's wrong in
your case, but make sure /etc/network/interfaces
contains a line 'iface lo inet loopback' that's not commented
out.
--
Andre
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