Went into webmin and chose not to start nis on bootup. A nifty utility. On Friday 27 February 2004 22:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | ypbind[619] broadcast: RPC: Timed out. I have one of these every 74 > | seconds. This was flagged on google (this time I checked) but no > | solutions. What is it. This is apparently harmless but might as well fix > | it :-) I think there is a bootup message relating to this as well. > > ypbind is part of the NIS system. (NIS is Network Information System, > I think) NIS was developed in the mid-80's by Sun to solve the > administrative problem of synchronizing /etc/passwd, /etc/group, > /etc/hosts, and /etc/services on many machines on a single network. I > don't know anything beyond that, but if you aren't using NIS then you > certainly have no need for ypbind and can remove it. (I don't know > what package its in, though)
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