From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 3 10:08:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA22376 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 10:08:42 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA22370 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 1995 10:08:41 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA05179; Tue, 3 Jan 95 11:02:27 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501031802.AA05179@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: nfs: how bad is it? To: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 95 11:02:26 MST Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9501031639.AA12979@olympus> from "Boyd Faulkner" at Jan 3, 95 10:39:01 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I have made a FreeBSD 2.0 box a ypclient and nfs client at work. I can > login to the box with my nfs shared home directory as my home. I can > edit a file but if I save it, it saves with 0 length. I cannot create > a file. I have the same uid and gid I do from the Sun but the /etc/group > file is not set to use NIS. > > Has anyone else done this and had it work? Yes, I have. The problem is the format of the entry that goes at the end of the group file; unfortunately, I can't access my system right now, and it changed from 1.1.5 to 2.0 anyway. This really should be a simple '+' or '+:', but is not. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.