Re: 2.3.4[1-2] incoming connections -- RPC

[Peter K]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, David S. Miller wrote:

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> Look, your system is trying to talk to the portmapped, almost
> certainly to attempt NIS lookups.  You don't have the portmapper
> running and you probably don't use NIS at all right?  Look into
> /etc/nsswitch.conf, I it is configuring your system to attempt
> to use NIS.  Am I right?

My nsswitch.conf contains 
passwd:         files
group:          files
hosts:          files dns
networks:       files
protocols:      files
rpc:            files
ethers:         files
netmasks:       files

What needs to be modified/removed/added to make login work as expected ?
  

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