On Solaris I believe you define the search os services in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file. You simply define services as 'files' instead of
'NIS'.
It's not HP-UX but it might help.
Art
At 05:45 PM 10/30/98 +0000, you wrote:
>HI
>
>Does anyone know how to specifically tell the ypbind() to use the local
>/etc/services file ? I am using a HP machine with HP-UX 10.x operating
>system. I haven't put a services map on the NIS master server since I need
>to restrict access to some specific services (not the normal ones but user
>programmed ones). Haveing a master server without a services map hasn't
>created problems on any red hat linux machines I use as clients so far. The
>red hats uses their own hosts file when they realise that there is no hosts
>map. Some how it doesn't work like that with the HP.
>
>Got any ideas ?
>
>Athula
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