Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > > I recently had to enable NIS on my FC5 box. It was rather painful. > > Nowhere near as direct and simple as it ought to be. I'm anxious to > > hear how a Fedora guru would go about configuring and running NIS (as > > a client) on a box that was not originally configured to do so. > > > > What I did was somehow discover that running authconfig-gtk would be a > > good thing. This was after I yummed ypbind, configured /etc/ypconf > > and started the ypbind service using the services gui tool, which then > > proceeded to "hang" (no response other than the wait cursor for many, > > many minutes). Then I disabled selinux and the firewall and still no > > joy. Only after running authconfig-gtk did NIS startup. So > > authconfig clearly knows to do something that I am not aware of. I > > hate when that happens. :-) > > > > But then my system got rebooted and NIS did not restart even though > > the ypbind service was configured to restart. So I need to figure out > > what authconfig knows that I don't know and how to set things up to > > have NIS running after a reboot. > > Do you have portmap running? Yes it is running now and was running at startup but I did notice the the authconfig program stopped and restarted portmap before it started ypbind. Which is all to say that I still do not understand why ypbind fails to start on a reboot. /var/log/messages does not indicate any problem. But I can say that when I tried to run: $ service ypbind start it did not report any output which is highly unusual. Something weird is going on ... -pmr
