From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Aug 4 22:37:16 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA28227 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 22:37:16 -0700 Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA28219 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 22:37:14 -0700 Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (130.133.3.235) with smtp id ; Sat, 5 Aug 95 07:37 MEST Received: (from graichen@localhost) by julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA03064; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 07:37:09 +0200 From: Thomas Graichen Message-Id: <199508050537.HAA03064@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: /etc/exports & nis/yp netgroups To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 07:37:09 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <15244.807586812@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 4, 95 06:40:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 899 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > --- exports.5.org Tue Jun 27 16:02:00 1995 > > +++ exports.5 Fri Aug 4 21:17:06 1995 > > @@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ > > The first two cases are specified by simply listing the name(s) separated > > by whitespace. > > All names are checked to see if they are ``netgroup'' names > > -first and are assumed to be hostnames otherwise. > > +first (this requires a "+" in the /etc/netgroup file on a nis client) > > +and are assumed to be hostnames otherwise. > > Uh. I think this needs to be worded a little better than that.. > _Where_ in the /etc/netgroup file? :-) Seriously, if we're going to > add documentation then we might as well make sure that what we add is > very explicit about things. Vague documentation has a very short > shelf-life! > > Jordan > ok - i'll try to do the job - i also thought yesterday of a better fix than this - wait some day's and i'll write it better t