On Wednesday 05 May 2004 13:17, you wrote:
> > I'm getting zillions of the following in the syslog on one of my
> > machines. (It repeats every few minutes.) Does anyone know what it
> > means?
> >
> > May 5 09:43:47 nakota ypbind[669]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out.
> >
> > I have googled it but haven't seen anyt definitive answer to these
> > problems.
>
> ypbind is a daemon used to deal with NIS authentication.
>
> RPC: Remote Procedure Call
>
> That it times out just means nothing on your network is responding to the
> daemons request.
>
> If you aren't using NIS then you should shut off the yp services.
Consider it done! Maybe it will speed up this slow system just a tad.
Thanks!
Vaughn
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