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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!glt From: glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: ypbind??? Does this exist for 386BSD Date: 2 Jun 1993 01:29:24 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1ugvpkINNp41@gap.caltech.edu> References: <1uggre$ff6@Tut.MsState.Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu ken@cy.cs.olemiss.edu (Ken Ivey) writes: >Does ypbind exist for 386BSD. If so, is anyone using it with >Solaris 2.1? If not, is anyone working on it? Not for 386BSD, but for NetBSD it does. I think Theo Deraat (sp?) is writing the code for it. It doesn't come with the official distribution of NetBSD, but rather with in the NetBSD-current kernel directory. However so many things have changed and improved that you will have to recompile just about everything with the new libc because the DB format has changed. Also the version I have, which is a pretty new version, doesn't support yp serving and although it claims to support +user::::0:0::, it seems to only work for +::::0:0:: in the password file. If you upgrade, be careful, a lot of the drivers for the kernel are no longer directly compatible with the new kernel. For instance, because of the new ring buffer code, I can no longer compile a kernel with syscons .2a.