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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: yp & unknown user
In-Reply-To: <33297ED8.CA3@epa.ericsson.se> from Mark Hannon at "Mar 14, 97 08:37:44 am"
To: epamha@epa.ericsson.se (Mark Hannon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 08:50:24 +0100 (MET)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org, mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> Hi,
> 
> I reinstalled my FreeBSD client machine last night with 2.2-GAMMA 
> (after a harddisk crash & replacement harddisk).
> 
> I copied all my backed up /etc files that I had previously used
> on this machine.  These included a working setup for NIS client.
> Passwd & Group are distributed from the ypserver.
> 
> The wierd thing is that now I can login with my normal userid and
> things seem to be OK.  The id command returns my uid & gids.  A
> "ypcat passwd" prints out the passwd file from the server, so far
> so good.
> 
> BUT....
> 
> (1) Attempts to start pine fail.  I get an error message saying that
>     pine doesn't know who I am and that attempts to read my login name
>     failed.
> (2) Commands of the form: cd ~mark fail with 'Unkown user'.

I suspect you are using the tcsh. Update tcsh.


> (3) My CDE login fails with unkown user.
> (4) I attempted to stop the ypserv daemon on the server and restart
>     with -debug but then all client calls timeout.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas on what I can have missed???
> 
> Regards/Mark
> 
> PS Pls CC replies to mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au, I'm not sure if I will
>    get the chance to read email at work again today.
> 

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de