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Subject: Re: nfs:  how bad is it?
To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 19:29:55 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <9501031802.AA05179@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 3, 95 11:02:26 am
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> 
> > 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.

	I have too :-)

> 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.

	Actually, I had to add a line:
+:::
	to the end of the /etc/group file.  When I tried to use '+:' like
on Sun workstations, login dumped core :-(  I think that there is a bug in
a library function which does not check the lines in /etc/group before
using them.

> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@cs.weber.edu
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 

		Remy