YP Headaches

[Waldher, Travis R]

When I try to change my NIS password:

[trw3016 at rpdsppc3 trw3016]$ yppasswd -p
yppasswd: yppasswdd not running on NIS master host ("~hostname~").

On the NIS Server there is this:

   program vers proto   port
    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
    100024    1   udp  32768  status
    100024    1   tcp  32768  status
    100004    2   udp    797  ypserv
    100004    1   udp    797  ypserv
    100004    2   tcp    800  ypserv
    100004    1   tcp    800  ypserv
 600100069    1   udp    806  fypxfrd
 600100069    1   tcp    808  fypxfrd
    100021    1   udp  32795  nlockmgr
    100021    3   udp  32795  nlockmgr
    100021    4   udp  32795  nlockmgr
    100021    1   tcp  32903  nlockmgr
    100021    3   tcp  32903  nlockmgr
    100021    4   tcp  32903  nlockmgr
    100011    1   udp    951  rquotad
    100011    2   udp    951  rquotad
    100011    1   tcp    970  rquotad
    100011    2   tcp    970  rquotad
    100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
    100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
    100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs
    100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs
    100005    1   udp    973  mountd
    100005    1   tcp    989  mountd
    100005    2   udp    973  mountd
    100005    2   tcp    989  mountd
    100005    3   udp    973  mountd
    100005    3   tcp    989  mountd
    100007    2   udp    866  ypbind
    100007    1   udp    866  ypbind
    100007    2   tcp    869  ypbind
    100007    1   tcp    869  ypbind
    100009    1   udp    935  yppasswdd
    391002    2   tcp  32990  sgi_fam

And:

[root at rpdssvr yp]# ps -ef |grep yppass
root      3726     1  0 08:46 ?        00:00:00 rpc.yppasswdd
root      4506  3421  0 08:59 pts/1    00:00:00 grep yppass