Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

Cause

ypcat passwd returns with the error message, can't communicate with ypbind, but ypbind is running.


ls -l /var/yp/binding/ypbind.pid   
-r--------   1 root     root           3 Dec  1 07:40 ypbind.pid  
umask for root is set to 077.