[tech] NIS hiccup

[Grahame Bowland]

> On Feb 06, Nick Bannon scrawled :

> mermaid was complaining of YP errors after entering a username in a
> telnet login (other logins didn't work either).
> 
> I telnet-ed to starfish, ssh-ed to mooneye and "/etc/init.d/nis restart"-ed.

Something happened to mooneye, Apache and sendmail had died. They're back up 
and running, but I'll try and find out how/why it happened.

Mussel should have taken over when mooneye's YP stuff went down. Anyway, we 
should move to something doing better NIS soon.

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