Bruce Perens wrote: > > Don't you have to put entries starting with "+" characters at the end of your > hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up? > Just guessing...
Thanks for the reply, Bruce. Buried deep in my verbose post was this line: >>> I have "+::::::" in /etc/passwd and "+:::" in /etc/group. The NIS HowTo says it isn't needed anymore, but the deb pacakge installation puts it in. Anyway, It doesn't seem to make a difference. I haven't ever seen mention of such an entry for the "hosts" file though. You wouldn't remember, but when I first installed Debian at the beginning of this year I used to get various RCP or clnt_rcp or some such errors coming out of nowhere. You and others (correctly) pointed out that I needed to remove the "+" entries in my passwd and group files. They were still there from when I had played with NIS last year. I had copied parts of my old passwd file to Debian! I hope somebody comes through with some ideas. I've spent hours at it and can't find anything else to tweek. :-( -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
