Hi Harold,

harold felton wrote on Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:19:59AM -0700:

> yp-server step 9: i think requires cmd '# rcctl enable ypserv'
>   rather than just the file-listed to survive a reboot...
> yp-client step 3: requires similar cmd '# rcctl enable ypbind'
>   rather than just the file-listed...

True, the FAQ was outdated in several respects, including these
ones.  Thanks for reporting, i just updated it.

> while testing this, i seemed to find that checking quotas during
> bootup with only ypbind (without ypserv) on my local machine
> became locked-up...  hitting ^C while locked-up then would
> immediately cause the normal done-message to appear...

Right now, i have no idea what is going on in that repsect.
I never used quotas, so i just fixed the easier parts.

> as i said, i do not know much (about yp) and am still trying to
> setup yp-password-changing - which seems to want a non-existent
> yppasswdd (daemon) next ???

That was deleted about two years ago:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/libexec/rpc.yppasswdd/Attic/Makefile

Yours,
  Ingo

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