On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 16:41 -0700, bruce wrote: > karl.... > > why would chkconfig automatically solve his issue(s) regarding > nis/ypbind > starting on an intermittent basis? > > if there's something else going on behind the scenes, then chkconfig > may > have no affect at all... > > is this the 1st attempt at running nis/ypbind on the server? are there > other > services running on the box? which services? > > are there any kind os security services being run on the box that > might be > interfering? Ok, we could postulate that the server prograams are not rinning correctly. But if so why would restart work? We need some error messages. -- ======================================================================= Don't get mad, get interest. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx