Re: Total mystery (to me).

[david@ods.com (David Engel)]

> ----------------------- quote -----------------------------
> bedlam:[*bhogan*]~/temp $ ls
> bedlam:[*bhogan*]~/temp $ ls -a
> .   ..
> bedlam:[*bhogan*]~/temp $ ls -l
> total 0
> bedlam:[*bhogan*]~/temp $ ls -al
> total 2
> clnttcp_create: RPC: Program not registered
> drwxrwsr-x   2 bhogan   bhogan       1024 Oct 23 12:24 .
> drwxrwsr-x  13 bhogan   bhogan       1024 Oct 23  1995 ..
> -------------------- unquote -------------------------------
> 
>   Just not my day.

Just a guess, but do you have the special YP/NIS lines in your passwd
or group files?  If so, I believe you would probably get this message
if ypbind isn't running.

David
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