From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 03:21:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA18563 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 03:21:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA18530 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 03:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA21728; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:20:29 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:20:28 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Gustavo V G C Rios cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS In-Reply-To: <361F255C.842350F4@netshell.vicosa.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > Hi, i am new to FreeBSD, i wants to install NIS server on my BSD > machine, but: > > Using Linux slackware, i got ypserv-1.3.5.tar.gz, can i untar it and > compile it for bsd ? > This nis package, needs libc6 (wich includes support to shadow, ethers, > etc, libc5 does not include this support), so will i have to update my > libc on bsd ? FreeBSD has inbuilt NIS support. Follow the instructions at http://www.realtime.net/sculpture/nis-startup.html I set it up with odyssey as the server and pogo as the client. Works perfectly. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message