Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1!pemurray
From: pemurray@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Peter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: RPC: Program not registered
Message-ID: <3839.27be7c21@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 17 Feb 91 17:50:41 GMT
References: <12077@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Lines: 18

In article <12077@helios.TAMU.EDU>, packman@tamuts.tamu.edu (Wally Strzelec) writes:
> I have a RS6000/530 acting as a nis master for a sun4/490 running
> sunos4.1 and when ever I run ypxfr from the sun I get the messages:
> 
> tamaix.tamu.edu: RPC: Program not registered
> (info) tamaix.tamu.edu tamnis.tamu.edu ypservers ypxfrd getdbm failed
> (reason =-1) -- using ypxfr
> 
> for every service, has anyone else got this problem... 

Is 'portmap' running?  It translates TCP sockets to RPC ports.  I think
YP is based of of RPC ports.

Peter
-- 
Peter Murray            Neat UNIX Stunts #4:             pemurray@miavx1.bitnet
176 Thompson Hall             csh> \(-            pmurray@apsvax.aps.muohio.edu
Oxford, OH 45056                       NeXT Mail:  pmurray@next4.acs.muohio.edu