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- From: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
- Subject: Re: Q: Is there NIS (yellow pages) for linux ?
- In-Reply-To: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:30:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <JRS.93Jan8215458@lepton.world.std.com>
- Sender: jrs@world.std.com (Rick Sladkey)
- Organization: The Internet
- References: <1993Jan8.135326.16092@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- <1993Jan8.153020.13379@aston.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:54:58 GMT
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- >>>>> On Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:30:20 GMT,
- >>>>> evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) said:
-
- Mark> Gerhard R. Kircher (kircher@gandalf) wrote:
-
- Gerhard> does anyone know about a port of NIS (yellow pages) for
- Gerhard> linux? At least a NIS client (ypbind) would suffice.
-
- There is no current freely available NIS implementation that I know
- of. Anyway, ypbind would not really be enough because you will have
- to recompile the shared libraries to get everything to use NIS instead
- of the standard non-NIS libc versions.
-
- Mark> I don't know of one, but someone from sun said that all the
- Mark> apropriate x files should be on any machine they ship.
-
- Please don't do that. The *.x files that come with SunOS don't have
- the appropriate distribution notices in them. Nevertheless, there are
- similar freely available versions of them with the proper notices. Do
- an archie search for tirpc if you want to find them.
-
- Mark> Anyone understand XDR?
-
- XDR is just a fraction of the problem. It would really be a pretty
- big project. Nevertheless, if you are interested, libc-4.2 fully
- supports RPC and the next RPC release will contain said yp*.x files.
-