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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!Lotus.com!Temp.lotus.com!temp!jkh From: jkh@impala.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available? In-Reply-To: deraadt@fsa.ca's message of Tue, 12 Oct 1993 12:20:11 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Oct14150916@impala.lotus.com> Sender: news@lotus.com Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.103.186.138 Organization: Lotus Ireland References: <661@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <29cbe8$pca@wzv.win.tue.nl> <29e12d$ege@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <DERAADT.93Oct12052011@newt.fsa.ca> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 20:09:16 GMT Lines: 33 In article <DERAADT.93Oct12052011@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes: > Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> wrote: > > NetBSD has it running. > > I know. But I would prefer not to change my *whole* stuff for that. *chuckle* Sorry, but that's just not possible. YP has to be linked into nearly every program in the system. getpwent() and getgrent() have to call the YP library code... Sigh. You know that's not what he meant. There's a big difference between "make world" and a "guess I'll switch to NetBSD now", and I'm pretty sure the latter is what Guido was referring to when he said he didn't want to "change my *whole* stuff", hell, you do a make world to switch from GAMMA to EPSILON and we didn't hear anyone (him included) complaining that it was asking too much. Recompiling the world from /usr/src (which includes things like 'less'), and even in /usr/ports, is no big thing if you leave it going while you sleep (and even hackers sleep sometime). I do it at least once a week, just to be absolutely sure I'm in sync, and it's no big deal if I do it right (some recently reported problems I had were caused by operator error on my part). If you need YP, install NetBSD. Someone has donated the YP changes for FreeBSD EPSILON back to us. This won't be the case for very much longer. Jordan