[Sderby] Configuration settings for NIS

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Dave

Thanks, I will try this evening.

Andre


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bottrill" <david@bottrill.org>
To: "sderby" <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Sderby] Configuration settings for NIS


> On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 22:06, andre.hefer@avhservices.co.uk wrote:
> > I am setting up an NIS server under SuSE 8.0 and using YAST2. I think I
am
> > following the configuration steps properly but at the end I get an error
> > message "error while running portmapper". Any idea what this means?
> >
>
> Hi Andre,
>
> While you are in yast, go to System and select runlevel editor, select
> the runlevel properties and see if the portmapp daemon is actually
> running. If it isn't tell it to run in run levels 3 and 5 if you then
> manually start the service from the same screen YAST will report the
> output of the service starting. If there are no errors then try to setup
> your NIS server again after selecting finish from the runlevel editor
> screen.
>
> --
> David Bottrill <david@bottrill.org>
>
>
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