[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Evan Welsh) wrote on 30.04.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> $ /usr/sbin/sendmail -f evan evan < ~/test.msg
> clnttcp_create: RPC: Program not registered
> Segmentation fault
> $
>
> Now this looked just like a problem I had with tar a while back. When tar
> refused to perform any operation that involved writing to a file (or
> STDOUT) and bombed out with the same message. By the way, I also get the
> clnttcp_create message with ls but it doesn't seg fault so -- like a bad
> smell -- I can live with it.
I've heard this one before. I don't remember the exact details, but I
think I can guess:
> if (gid != savegid)
> {
> savegid = gid;
> savegname[0] = '\0';
> setgrent ();
> gr = getgrgid (gid);
> if (gr)
> strncpy (savegname, gr->gr_name, TGNMLEN);
> }
Obviously, it barfs when trying to match group ids to group names, and
what goes wrong involves tcp/ip.
That should be a problem with yp (aka nis).
Two possibilities:
a. You want to use yp. Make sure that it's setup right, something
obviously isn't. I'm not an yp expert, so I can't tell exactly what.
b. You don't want to use yp, maybe don't even know what it is. It seems
it's enabled, though. I _think_ you'll find a special entry in /etc/groups
indicating to getgrid() that it should do a yp lookup, and removing that
entry will stop your problem. (Similar entries can exist for /etc/passwd.)
Something looking weird like "+:*::" or similar.
MfG Kai
