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From: reggers@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Reg Quinton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Ypbind -- isn't detaching properly
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.163806@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>
Date: 18 Mar 91 21:38:06 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.162029@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> <991@spim.mips.COM> <1991Mar14.153702@ria.ccs.uwo.ca> <31425@shamash.cdc.com>
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In article <31425@shamash.cdc.com>, mgc@myshkin.udev.cdc.com (Mark G
Christenson) writes:
|> In article <1991Mar14.153702@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, reggers@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Reg
Quinton) writes:
|> |> I can no longer yet ypserv started at all (or any of the others). I get a
|> |> gripe in /etc/yp/ypserv.log as follows:
|> |> 
|> |>    [3:33pm julian] page ypserv.log
|> |>    Cannot register service (program 100004, version 2): RPC: Timed out
|> |>    Thu Mar 14 15:15:21: ypserv:  Unable to register service for udp.
|> Did you by any chance remove 'localhost' from your hosts file?

a number of people have made this suggestion.

No, I haven't removed localhost from /etc/hosts. Anyways, if I had wouldn't
the portmapper have failed for all the other services that are successfully
registered?

Still curious.