Did you actually enable NISSERVER=slave or =master in /etc/default/nis? ypserv is only started if you do that. As far as I can see, the upstart job (/etc/init/ypserv.conf) uses exactly the same setting.
Did you actually enable NISSERVER=slave or =master in /etc/default/nis? ypserv is only started if you do that. As far as I can see, the upstart job (/etc/init/ ypserv. conf) uses exactly the same setting.