Is NetworkManager running? Try turning it off. Of course, if you were using it to control networking, uncheck 'controlled by NetworkManager' first. then restart ypbind. By bizarre coincidence, I had the same problem on a new install of fc9 late yesterday afternoon, killing NetworkManager has fixed it for me.<br>
Dave<br><br> /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start;/etc/init.d/ypbind restart;ypcat passwd|head -n2|sed "s/./x/g"<br>
Setting network parameters... [ OK ]<br>
Starting NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]<br>
Shutting down NIS service: [ OK ]<br>
Starting NIS service: [ OK ]<br>
Binding NIS service: ............... [ OK ]<br>
No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Cant bind to server which serves this domain<br>
<font color="#888888">[root@alaeula ~]# /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop;/etc/init.d/ypbind restart;ypcat passwd|head -n2|sed "s/./x/g"<br>
Stopping NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]<br>
Shutting down NIS service: [ OK ]<br>
Starting NIS service: [ OK ]<br>
Binding NIS service: ... [ OK ]<br>
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