ypbind hangs with IRIX NIS server
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Hi all,
I recently installed debian-sparc 2.1 on a Sparc station IPC. Installing
it was as simple as installing debian-i386, you did a good job.
However, when I installed the NIS package and configured the machine to be
a NIS client for an SGI IRIX 6.4 NIS server, it hangs on starting ypbind.
I've booted in single user mode, disabled the NIS client and restarted the
machine. When I tried to start /etc/init.d/nis by hand, ypbind fails at
first (had to kill), but when I start it for the second time, everything
went OK and the machine was nicely humming in the NIS domain.
I tried to explicitly put the name of the ypserver (and also the ypdomain)
in /etc/yp.conf, but that didn't fix the problem.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug in the ypbind binary?
Erik
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J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Department
of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems,
Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
Phone: +31-15-2785859 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl
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