Re: ypbind

From: David Baron (d_baron_at_012.net.il)
Date: 02/28/04

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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:18:20 +0100

    Went into webmin and chose not to start nis on bootup.
    A nifty utility.

    On Friday 27 February 2004 22:54, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
    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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