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- From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
- Subject: Re: Using YP/NIS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.035904.24953@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: Ziebmef home away from home
- References: <Bx75qz.3Ko@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Nov5.071608.26394@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> <1992Nov5.153232.19021@decuac.dec.com> <YASSBNM4@cc.swarthmore.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 08:59:04 GMT
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- hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) writes:
- | In any case, I'm beginning to feel that using rdist to distribute the
- | passwd file may be the better alternative to using NIS in a mixed
- | vendor environment.
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- There's also track, originally from Bellcore; ftp.cs.toronto.edu
- has a much improved, faster, and more reliable version. A number of
- groups use it here for the purpose, and it works great. Track also
- has a somewhat better model for distributing stuff, where clients
- call in to servers to get the latest versions, instead of servers
- which try to push file updates out to clients.
-
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