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Date:      Sat, 10 Oct 1998 18:20:28 +0800 (WST)
From:      Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To:        Gustavo V G C Rios <grios@netshell.vicosa.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIS
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810101819200.21370-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
In-Reply-To: <361F255C.842350F4@netshell.vicosa.com.br>

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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.

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| Dean Hollister,           | dean@mushka.ml.org        |
| Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au      |
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