Re: YP/NIS timeout.

2003-01-03 Thread lewiz
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 08:29:58PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said: > > At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get > > nothing for a while until: > > > > yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out > Hit ^T during the pause and find out what pr

Re: YP/NIS timeout.

2003-01-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 01), lewiz said: > At the login: prompt I enter my username (lewiz), hit return and get > nothing for a while until: > > yp_order: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out > > This message gets repeated a few times but I can do pretty much > nothing with my machine. > > Even as I log

Re: YP/NIS timeout.

2003-01-01 Thread lewiz
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:25:20PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 29), lewiz said: > > I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely > > falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am > > unable to login, even with my root account. I have a

Re: YP/NIS timeout.

2002-12-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 29), lewiz said: > I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely > falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am > unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local user that > I would like to use (when the YP/NIS server is un

YP/NIS timeout.

2002-12-29 Thread lewiz
Hi, I'm wondering if there is any way to stop my system completely falling over when my YP/NIS server is no longer available? I am unable to login, even with my root account. I have a local user that I would like to use (when the YP/NIS server is unavailable) but this seems impossible. Any id