Re: RH 5.0 and NIS setup

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk vt uni-paderborn de>]

Hello,

> 
> I've just installed RH 5.0 and, as usual, it all seemed to go fine (hats
> of to the guys for all the work they've done!).
> 
> Doing my usual post-install tasks, I tried to set up NIS(client). 
> Previously this was done simply by editing the /etc/yp.conf file and
> puting in the domainname and ypserver and it all magically worked (support
> built in to libc).
> 
> This no-longer works, (can't bind to server which serves this domain).  Is
> this due to the fact that it is now using glibc?  
> 
> Has anyone got NIS (client) working yet? 
> 

You have to start ypbind, too. At first, add 
NISDOMAIN=<local domain>
to /etc/sysconfig/network,
then enable starting of ypbind with chkconfig or ntsysv.

And read the NIS-HOWTO from November 1997.

  Thorsten

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