Dear SL fellow users (admins?),

I installed SL7 yesterday from the standard DVD in "Computing node" flavour. 
"yum update" ran correctly, then I needed YP/NIS. Network configured and 
working (one if out of six activated). Connection from and to my new host 
working correctly.

$ yum install ypbind yp-tools

$ service ypbind start
$ service rpcbind restart

$ ypcat passwd | wc
No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves this domain
       0       0       0

$ rpcinfo -p
    program vers proto   port  service
     100000    4   tcp    111  portmapper
     100000    3   tcp    111  portmapper
     100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
     100000    4   udp    111  portmapper
     100000    3   udp    111  portmapper
     100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
     100024    1   udp  36574  status
     100024    1   tcp  51821  status

There should be some lines with "ypbind" though!

journalctl yields a line
  Jan 06 13:03:40 marcta3 ypbind[5780]: NIS domain: cppm, ypbind not registered with rpcbind.

I ended up disabling SELinux (/etc/selinux/config, reboot) to exclude any 
interference, but no change.

I continue my investigation, but in case this rings a bell (or if anybody can 
report successful installation of SL7+ypbind), I would be grateful for any 
hint or idea of additional analysis/logfiles.

Cheers
 									Dirk

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