Why does xterm need NIS?

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1 total messages Started by Peter Scott Tue, 25 Jun 1991 17:00

Author: Peter Scott
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 17:00

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My Sun workstation is a minimal NIS (YP) client (although not
for much longer, after this).  Recently we rebooted the NIS
master, and while this was going on, I tried to start an xterm.
I got the error message

NIS: server not responding for domain "navdev"; still trying.

and it started successfully when the NIS master came back up.

Well, what does xterm (or any other X client) need NIS for when
I'm opening the window on the local host?  I did a trace on xterm
later, but the NIS master was up by then and I couldn't tell what
system calls were accessing NIS.


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