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Re: configure NIS test hangs on one of my OS X machines

On Sep 8,  8:19pm, William G. Scott wrote:
}
} I have two presumably identically configured iMacs, one at work and  
} one at home.  Both are intel running OS X 10.5.4.
} 
} zsh configures fine on the machine at work.  At home, it hangs  
} indefinitely testing for NIS

Does the Mac at home have *any* kind of networking active?

Run

    /usr/bin/ypcat passwd.byname

from a shell.  Does that hang forever?  Can you trace it to find out why?
(I forget whether MacOS has "strace" or something else.)
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