mailbox, yp,

[Michael Zeitlin]

In article <565 at texhrc.UUCP>, mjz at texhrc.UUCP (Michael Zeitlin) writes:
> 
> 
>       We have a problem with the mailbox tool working with a
>       yellow pages domain whose server is a SUN running
>       4.1.1 of SUNOS.
> 
>       When yp is turned off, the mailbox tool works great (of coarse
>       no mail cancome in...)
> 
>       When yp is turned on...we get  mailbox: bad file number
>       repeating a s a message and the icon is unresponsive...
> 
>       mail itself works ..( i can read an write mail without using
>        the mailbox tool).
         
	 
	 thanks for all the help on this problem.... as it
	  turns out our ypmaster on the sun server did not
	  (as one should expect) contain some of the sgi
	  services and rpc entries.

	  SGI should provide a page in their documentation
	  that lists which services are not part of the
	  standard BSD system.

	  Sometimes , as in our case, the ypmaster is a non-sgi
	  system and it would be helpful to have this 
	  documented somewhere......