Well, I am using Mandrake, which is Redhat for the most part. I didn't
have to actually mess with those files though, I just went to the
services somewhere in Mandrake Control Center and told them not start at
boot time. Now I'm not having that problem. I don't know how it got
started, though. Weird. Thanks for your help.
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> i think more importantly than a copy of nsswitch is to simply not start the
> service upon startup.
>
> you probably use redhat; i think the startup scripts are /etc/rc.d/rc3.d for
> non-graphical startup of /etc/rc.d/rc5.d for graphical startup (it has been a
> long time since i used redhat). for suse, it's rc2.d and rc5.d.
>
> one of your scripts starts ypserv, the server for NIS. it's probably called
> something like S[0-9][0-9]ypserv or S[0-9][0-9]nis. first kill the service
> by
>
> ./S[0-9][0-9]ypserv stop (for example)
>
> next, disable the service by moving
>
> S[0-9][0-9]ypserv to s[0-9][0-9]ypserv
> S[0-9][0-9]nis to s[0-9][0-9]nis
>
> change the starting S to a small s. they won't be run on startup if they
> begin with small s.
>
> while you're at it, no doubt you're running portmap. move the portmap
> startup script to a small s as well.
>
> pete
