Re: ypbind
From: David Baron (d_baron_at_012.net.il)
Date: 02/28/04
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 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
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> | 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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