On 12 Feb 2006, at 00:31, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
I have several machines running 6-STABLE that are showing the error listed below in /var/log/cron every few minutes. Google didn't turn up much of relevance, other than the fact that this might be related to disabling NIS. And, in fast, I have NO_NIS=true in /etc/ make.conf on every single box.Is this a bug or a feature? Is it harmful? The error messages are...Feb 11 16:25:00 poseidon /usr/sbin/cron[95789]: (root) CMD (/usr/ libexec/atrun) Feb 11 16:25:00 poseidon cron[95789]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, setgrent, not found Feb 11 16:25:00 poseidon cron[95789]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, endgrent, not found Feb 11 16:25:00 poseidon cron[95789]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, passwd_compat, endpwent, not found
What does your nsswitch.conf look like, and does removing the NIS entries fix it?
Ceri
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