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  rpc.nispasswdd[394]: rpc.nispasswd Error in accessing NIS+ cold start
file... is NIS+ installed?.

 We are running Solaris 7.

 We are not running NIS/YP.  I do not see any nis/yp processes running.
 However, I see following when I ran 'rpcinfo -p'.

 rpcinfo -p | grep nis
    100300    3   udp  32772  nisd
    100300    3   tcp  32771  nisd

 I see following in /etc/init.d/rpc file:
   if [ -d /var/nis/data -o -d /var/nis/$hostname ]; then
                        /usr/sbin/rpc.nisd $EMULYP
                        echo " rpc.nisd \c"
                        /usr/sbin/rpc.nispasswdd
   fi

I assume this is why nis processes are being registered with 'rpc'.
/var/nis/data is a blank directory and /var/nis/$hostname directory
does not exist.

I believe I need to move /var/nis/data to /var/nis/data.old and it will
take care of this issue.

Am I correct here or I need to be fixing it different way ?

Thank you all for your help.

Quote:> rpcinfo -p | grep nis
>    100300    3   udp  32772  nisd
>    100300    3   tcp  32771  nisd

Quote:>I assume this is why nis processes are being registered with 'rpc'.
>/var/nis/data is a blank directory and /var/nis/$hostname directory
>does not exist.
>I believe I need to move /var/nis/data to /var/nis/data.old and it will
>take care of this issue.

Better still, kill the "rpc.nisd" process, and if it is running,
also kill the "nis_cachemgr" process.  Then

        cd /var/nis
        rm -rf *

Don't move it; remove it.  Then reboot.

On a freshly installed system that is not running NIS+, the
directory "/var/nis" is empty.  And it will stay empty unless you
setup NIS+.

But if you decide to do that, you might want to do

        pkgchk -l SUNWnisu | grep "^Pathname:"

first to ensure that it doesn't contain anything you do actually want.

BTW, SUNWnisr and SUNWnisu exist in Solaris 8, so I'm assuming they
exist in Solaris 7 too, but that could be wrong.

   - Logan

THANKS AGAIN.