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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: Yellow Pages (NIS), cmdtool and vi on xview32 on XFree86-2.1.1 on FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 Message-ID: <CyLK8D.AoJ@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: Internet Direct, indirect.com Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 16:24:13 GMT References: <victorwu.21.0011B7DC@hk.net> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 25 Victor Wai Hung WU (victorwu@hk.net) wrote: : Hello folks, : Has anyone been able to connect FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 workstations together : and have yellow pages or (NIS) using a Sun running Solaris as the : NIS server. Can you give me some pointers on how to do just that. : Thanks a lot. Get the O'Reilly book "Administering NFS and NIS" before you do anything else. NIS administration is mostly attention to details, which you can't do if you don't know the details. I could write a volume on it, but someone else already has! ;^) : I have also got xview 3.2 running on XFree86 2.1.1 on FreeBSD : 1.1.5.1. However when I run cmdtool or shelltool I have problem : running vi or more. It seems that the termcap has problem. Please, : if any of you have done that successfully, give me some help. Make sure you have an entry for 'sun' or 'sun-cmd' in your termcap, then use one of them as your $TERM entry. I always found vi really irritating under shelltool and used xterms instead. Wes Peters