Thanks, that makes sense. Dave On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > If you have NIS configured, it'll be used by anything that needs to map a > uid or gid number to a name, or anything that needs a list of groups for > users, among other things. > > That means (IIRC) that having a crontab implies a NIS lookup, because > creating a new session for your user needs to fetch supplementary groups > from NIS (even for root). > > 'ls -l' might also do lookups to resolve the uid/gid of your local files. > "local files" does not imply that there is no need for YP. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- This email is: [ ] request action [ ] request info [x] fyi [ ] social Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none http://www.43folders.com/2005/09/19/writing-sensible-email-messages