RPC: Program not registered

[Peter Murray]

In article <12077 at helios.TAMU.EDU>, packman at tamuts.tamu.edu (Wally Strzelec) writes:
> I have a RS6000/530 acting as a nis master for a sun4/490 running
> sunos4.1 and when ever I run ypxfr from the sun I get the messages:
> 
> tamaix.tamu.edu: RPC: Program not registered
> (info) tamaix.tamu.edu tamnis.tamu.edu ypservers ypxfrd getdbm failed
> (reason =-1) -- using ypxfr
> 
> for every service, has anyone else got this problem... 

Is 'portmap' running?  It translates TCP sockets to RPC ports.  I think
YP is based of of RPC ports.

Peter
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