Re: NIS: Ypcat doesn't work.

[Jan Lühr <jluehr@gmx.net>]

Hello,

Am Donnerstag, 24. Februar 2005 21:21 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
> I've set up NIS on a new network according to the Debian NIS HowTo
> (http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian-howto/nis.html).  When I set up my old
> network (which was RPM based), I could type "ypcat passwd" from a client
> system, and it would type the password file.  How come when I do that on a
> new system, I get:
>
> No such map passwd.byname. Reason: No such map in server's domain
>
> From what I can tell, the default setup is to include the /etc/passwd file
> (along with others).

Have you done
make -C /var/yp
?
Keep smiling
yanosz