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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
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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