From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 2:34:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se (albatross-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EECD837B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from super.du.uab.ericsson.se (super.du.uab.ericsson.se [134.138.176.16]) by albatross.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.11.0/8.11.0/WIREfire-1.3) with ESMTP id f17AXOC26408 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:34:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from news.du.uab.ericsson.se (news [134.138.176.24]) by super.du.uab.ericsson.se (8.10.1/8.10.1/erix-1.8) with ESMTP id f17AXOr28095 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:33:24 +0100 (MET) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.du.uab.ericsson.se (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/news-1.1) id LAA27823 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:33:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from GATEWAY by news with netnews for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: 07 Feb 2001 11:33:23 +0100 From: Kent Boortz Message-ID: Organization: Ericsson Utvecklings AB, Stockholm, Sweden Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: NIS client setup? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Could you clearify some details about NIS client setup? The client runs FreeBSD 4.1.1 and the server is a Solaris machine. What does the + with some colons really mean? What is true below a) The information on the lines before the + and the information from the NIS server are merged. b) If a line in the file ending with a + conflicts with the information at the NIS server the information from the NIS server takes presedence. c) With no + line the NIS server will never be questioned for this info. d) It is only the + at the beginning of the last line that means anything to the NIS client, the colons are there to make the line syntactically correct for other programs (like vipw) e) The /etc/hosts file should end in a line with +:: like described at http://www.freebsddiary.org/nis-client.html (there is nothing about this in the handbook) I tried to find out myself searching the documentation and sources but could not find out how it works. Do you know where I can find more information about NIS and the NIS used in FreeBSD? kent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message