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From: rogerk@mips.com (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Ypbind -- isn't detaching properly
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Date: 14 Mar 91 01:01:00 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.162029@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> reggers@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Reg Quinton) writes:
>Anyways, I'm having some luck but one irritating problem is ypbind. When
>ypbind is started at boot time it just disappears. When the system is up and
>running I can start a version by hand and it will stay up and running as a
>proper daemon.  This sounds an awful lot like the problems we had with sylogd
>in earlier versions of Risc/Os.
>
>Has anyone else seen this problem? Has anyone got a solution?

Yes.

(a) As per the release notes, start ypbind and ypserv with "nohup"

- or -

(b) Upgrade to 4.52.
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