Package: nis Version: 3.17-30 Severity: wishlist This is related to bug #231808 .
Before installing NIS, I had known that I needed to edit /etc/yp.conf for NIS to work; I intended to do that after installing NIS. But, when I installed NIS via aptitude, the configuration process got stuck with Starting NIS services: ypbindbinding to YP server . . . . This situation is awkward. To solve this problem, I'd like to suggest that debconf ask either 1) whether it should start ypbind now; or 2) whether NIS servers can be found by broadcasting (or something like that). If the answer to the question is "no", debconf won't start ypbind but advise the user to start NIS after editing relevant configuration files. Regards, Ryo -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages nis depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy ii hostname 3.01 utility to set/show the host name ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.82-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-8 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii libglib2.0-0 2.22.2-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.6 OpenSLP libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati ii netbase 4.37 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii portmap 6.0.0-1 RPC port mapper nis recommends no packages. Versions of packages nis suggests: pn nscd <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: * nis/domain: soest.hawaii.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
