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On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:03:29PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> > ... but you don't want to be a YP client, and you should be able to
> > tell xdm this somehow.
> >
> > What starts xdm? Something in rc? There should be a flag or variable
> > set there that's causing this yp-client request behavior.
>
> it's started from rc via the script /etc/init.d/xdm, which basically
> calls /usr/bin/X11/xdm with absolutely no arguments. and i tried just
> running xdm as root from the command line to no avail.
I'm thinking environment variable set early in rc configuration.
(This is how all the BSDs do it.)
> i furthermore can't find anything on NIS/yp/RPC in xdm(1),
> xdm.options(5), grepping /etc/X11 returns nothing usable, and this and
> that. basically i don't know why it thinks it has to look for an NIS
> master at 127.0.0.1, which make as little sense as my mom talking
> technology.
That's a bit irritating.
> because the request goes to 127.0.0.1, i am actually tempted to
> believe that this is something else but NIS/yp, still using portmap,
> but not using the yp stuff. any thoughts?
Hrm. Not much besides NIS(+) and NFS use portmap (at least, not that
would be installed by default... I'm pretty sure that, for instance,
xFS does, but you *definitely* don't have that installed)... you
aren't trying to use an automounter for home directories, are you?
~ g r @ eclipsed.net
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