Dear Tru64 Managers,
Problem: NIS falls over in a heap if records in /etc/netgroup are
bigger than 1024 characters.
Thanks are due to
Paul A Sand
Mike Iglesias
Toby Bluhm
Daniel S. Riley
Barry Branch
Grant Ward
who all made basically the same suggestion, which is to split big
netgroups into subgroups, e.g.
third-year-ugrads1 (-,adriant,) ....
third-year-ugrads2 (-,draiant,) ....
...
third-year-ugrads third-year-ugrads1 third-year-ugrads2 ...
Since my netgroups file is generated automatically by a script I need
to make this script somewhat cleverer. Mike Iglesias and Paul Sand
helpfully provided some Perl which they use at their site to achieve
this.
My experience with this problem confirms my view that NIS is not the
sweetest-smelling part of the Unix garden!
Regards,
Bob
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Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 08:47:53 NZST