From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 19:18:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 821DB37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11A943FBD for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 19:18:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h722Hsba048679; Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:17:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 21:17:54 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Alvaro Rosales R." Message-ID: <20030802021753.GA38843@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3F290AFE.6476.E87B3D@localhost> <3F291190.26278.102219D@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F291190.26278.102219D@localhost> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS groups -yp_mkdb: error data too long X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 02:18:04 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 31), Alvaro Rosales R. said: > Hi guys I got this error when I make my NIS maps , I have a group > in my group file that has 50 users and yp_mkdb complains about it > with this error .yp_mkdb: data too long > Any ideas? A line in your group file is over 1024 bytes. That doesn't seem right, though, since you should be able to put 110 8-character usernames (plus commas) in a group line without overflowing it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com