Re: [Cooker] anybody else get the nis working?

2000-02-10 Thread Roger
ok. thanks for the verification. sort of knew that i was starting to "bark up a tree" when it didn't compile or anything. btw: i did get some of it working (w/o fixing the error in the makefile...which is something that'll i'll try and do "make" again). like you said, is seeing the database

Re: [Cooker] anybody else get the nis working?

2000-02-10 Thread Roger
any specific info on the yp Makefile? with the 2 extra "@", or is this updated in one of the cooker rpm's (yp*.rpm) to where i should just update with that particular rpm. etc. On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, you wrote: Ya, I got NIS working with Mandrake 7.0. It sure was a bitch though because they

Re: [Cooker] anybody else get the nis working?

2000-02-10 Thread Eric H
Sorry, I don't have linux in front of me right now but you can fix it by opening up the ypserve Makefile and scroll downing somewhere around 3/4 of the way down. You will see sections that say passwd.userid and group.userid (or something very similar). Once you find the group. section there are

Re: [Cooker] anybody else get the nis working?

2000-02-07 Thread Eric H
Ya, I got NIS working with Mandrake 7.0. It sure was a bitch though because they wrote the makefile wrong. You get that "Domain not bound" error when you do not have your NIS database built. You have to type /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m You then follow the instructions and it will attempt to build