Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 11:55:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-R: problem with inetd and NIS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906221154220.99084-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906212206.AA264992771@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >> I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature. It doesn't seem to > >> be in the release notes so perhaps that makes it a bug. :-) > >> > >> I am putting an entry in inetd.conf with a non-root user field. > >> This user is defined in NIS rather than in /etc/master.passwd. > >> On 3.0-R and 3.1-R this works. On 3.2-R when I HUP inetd I get: > >> "No such user 'user', service ignored". Putting a non-NIS entry > >> into master.passwd for this user does get inetd to start the > >> service. > > > >This begs the question, is NIS working? How did you activate NIS? > > Yes, NIS is working for everything except inetd in 3.2-R. Did you shutdown inetd totally then restart it? Apparently kill -HUP inetd doesn't quite work correctly for certain configuration files. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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