I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked.
I started to suspect that things weren't working at step 3.6, starting the server, when it didn't seem to be able to bind to the YP server. (I'm still not entirely clear on why it wants to bind to the server when /etc/init.d/nis is telling it that it's the master server, but I digress...) Then, in step 3.7, I knew things weren't working as I saw "/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m" report "failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Timed out" for each and every map that it tried to update. Just to be sure, though, I tried a ypwhich after ypinit finished and was told, "can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound". Throughout all of this, nothing was logged to syslog. So how do I troubleshoot this? Is the problem obvious to anyone? -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+