Yet Another Install Report

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 06:55:09AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 11:43:55AM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 12:57:58 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > nis is now part of the supported distribution.
> > 
> > Cool, thanks for that.  Strange, though, that it didn't ask for the
> > server hostname, then couldn't find it!  Had to fix all the config files
> > by hand.
> 
> Can you elaborate?  I test-installed it; it asked for the NIS domain name
> and displayed a note about requiring further configuration (e.g., nss),
> and then started up ypbind without complaint.

I must have missed the note about further configuration.  I'm not sure why
ypbind was hanging after install (perhaps related to the network setup
here), but after editing /etc/yp*.conf and restarting nis, it's all running
fine now.

Pete