Hello,
I seem to be having a little problem with NIS and am hoping someone
might be able to help, if it isn't a bother.
I've set up an NIS server and client as per the howto (3.9-3)
using Debian 3.0. Everything *appears* to be working, i.e. I can
finger NIS users from the NIS client properly an
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-02 22:23:46 -0500]:
>
> I just recently converted over to using nis to deliver my /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group data on my home lan. All has been working fine with that
Uh, you already asked this question once already:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-use
I just recently converted over to using nis to deliver my /etc/passwd
and /etc/group data on my home lan. All has been working fine with that
for a few weeks, so I decided last night to convert over to having my
workstation obtain /etc/services, /etc/protocols, /etc/ethers, and
/etc/rpc data from
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Swen Thuemmler wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> [...]
> > ypbind checks that the NIS server is still there every minute (the period
> > in the old version. The new man page just says "periodically").
> >
> > The man page doesn't show an option to overr
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote:
[...]
> ypbind checks that the NIS server is still there every minute (the period
> in the old version. The new man page just says "periodically").
>
> The man page doesn't show an option to override this, so I may just
> put one in myself. Do you see an
On 11 Oct 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system.
> >(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.)
>
> Ah I see what you want.
>
> You don't need NIS to resolve hostnames. In fact, I'm pretty sure the
> This
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system.
>(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.)
>I can't seem to get it to work now. When ypbind is running, commands
>that should tri
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> Don't you have to put entries starting with "+" characters at the end of your
> hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up?
> Just guessing...
Thanks for the reply, Bruce. Buried deep in my verbose post was this
line:
>>> I have "+::" i
Don't you have to put entries starting with "+" characters at the end of your
hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up?
Just guessing...
Thanks
Bruce
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A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system.
(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.)
I can't seem to get it to work now. When ypbind is running, commands
that should trigger a name lookup don't even cause the lights on my
modem (ppp) or ISDN box to
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