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Re: NIS and RedHat 5.2

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joerg Mertin)
Thu Nov 5 02:30:31 1998

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 08:26:58 +0100
From: Joerg Mertin <smurphy@dspecialists.de>
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In-Reply-To: <3640A85E.5C572215@eburg.com>; from Gordon Messmer on Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 11:17:50AM -0800
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On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 11:17:50AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: 
> Maybe it's a bit early to expect this of anyone, but is anyone else
> using NIS under RedHat 5.2?  When I upgraded, all my yp stuff broke. 
> ypbind now complains that the domain is not bound.  Attempting "ypcat
> passwd" tells me that it cannot bind to the server for this domain. 
> The configuration files have not changed, I've compared them to
> backups.  Portmap is fine, as I can still mount nfs shares.  The HOWTO
> doesn't have much on troubleshooting this type of problem.  So...any
> sugesstions?  :)

I bet you upgraded from a Version 4.2 of RedHat to 5.2 ? Well, in this
case, you must know that the usage of "ypbind" came back in RedHat-5.x, so
you´ll have to start the ypbind daemon. 

Regards
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