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Hi All. Great distro by the way. I love Slackware, but love the neatness of Salix. I was wondering if somebody can cast some light on a problem with Salix in both 32 bit and 64 bit editions. I use nis to authenticate my users on my home network, so have installed the yptools package from the repository. Everything works, except I have to had to rc.yp to the excluded services in /etc/rc.d/rc.services, but now my machines are taking an age to boot. The seem to get stuck on dbus-daemon in /etc/rc,d/rc.messagebus and HAL seems to be taking an age to come up as well. Other than this it works fine. I think this may be something to do with /etc/nsswitch.conf, so here's mine for your perusal:

passwd: files nis
shadow: files nis
group: files nis

hosts: files dns
networks: files

services: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
netgroup: files
bootparams: files

automount: nis
aliases: files

SOLVED.

Looked at this *will not let me post a URL, but it is about NFS and wicd on this forum* and realized it was the same problem. Having come from a purely Slackware background, I was unfamiliar with the wicd daemon. I have disabled this with <code>chmod u-x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd</code> , and configured the network the usual way, through <code>/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf</code> and hey-presto, everything is fixed!