See comment below.

On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

>       Hi Debian users,
>       I'm trying to setup a NIS server with some clients.
>       I'm following the steps of /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz.
>       I begun with the server. 
>       At step 3.6: Setup the server by typing "/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m"
>       The following error occurs and I suspect that I will not be able to use 
> NIS clients then:
>       HOST132:/etc# /usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m
> 
>       At this point, we have to construct a list of the hosts which will run 
> NIS servers. HOST132 is in the list of NIS server hosts. Please continue to 
> add the names for the other hosts, one per line. When you are done with the 
> list, type a <control D>.
>       next host to add:  HOST132
>       next host to add:  
>       The current list of NIS servers looks like this:
> 
>       HOST132
> 
>       Is this correct?  [y/n: y]  
>       We need some  minutes to build the databases...
>       Building /var/yp/fgv.br/ypservers...
>       Running /var/yp/Makefile...

I had the same problem. Seems to be a bug in ypinit. If you
go to /var/yp and run make (with the server running), the
Makefile works.

>       /bin/sh: 1: command not found
>       make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/fgv.br'
>       make[1]: `ypservers' is up to date.
>       make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/yp/fgv.br'
>       make[1]: Entering directory `/var/yp/fgv.br'
>       Updating passwd.byname...
>       /bin/sh: 1: command not found
>       Updating passwd.byuid...
>       /bin/sh: 1: command not found
>       Updating group.byname...
>       /bin/sh: 1: command not found
>       Updating group.bygid...
>       make[1]: *** [group.bygid] Interrupt
>       make: *** [target] Interrupt
> 
>       Comand not found.
>       What I did wrong?
>       have a nice day,                        Paulo Henrique
>       
> 


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