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From: edgar@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Edgar Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: YP problem with services file
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.233922.556@morrow.stanford.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 23:39:22 GMT
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Hi,
	I'm running AUX 2.0 on a IIx and just brought up NFS and YP.  However,
when I did this I found that I no longer could use telnet, rlogin, ftp, etc.
After an hour or so, I decided must be YP since NFS seemed ok and inetd
was running.  So I turned YP off in /etc/inittab(I was a YP client).  
After rebooting, these services worked again.
(I'm doing this w/o doc incidentally - don't ask!)  
	So I got hold of some documentation
(that might be AUX 1.1) and it says that when you run YP it expects that
several files are mapped by YP:services,hosts,protocols,ethers,etc...
But my YP server doesn't map these files, just passwd and group.   I guess
that when the inetd looks up stuff in the services file, it basically does
a 'ypcat services' instead of checking to see if YP maps this file and then
using the local services file.
	On Ultrix there is a file /etc/svc.conf that controls this kind of thing
but I can't find anything on A/UX that controls this.  Is this hardwired?
How do you handle YP'ing a file in a heterogeneous environment when
it may be different for different machines?  I might be able to get
my YP server to map the services file, but it would be alot easier to
get A/UX to read the local file....
	Send mail to me and I'll summarize to this group!
edgar@coco.ms.washington.edu
thanks!