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@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ please let me know. [Q23] ``When compiling GNU libc I get lots of errors saying functions in glibc are duplicated in libgcc.'' + +[Q24] ``I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS + works great. But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.'' ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ [Q1] ``What systems does the GNU C Library run on?'' @@ -674,6 +677,21 @@ you first delete config.cache. some problems of this kind. The setting of CFLAGS is checked at the very beginning and if it is not usable `configure' will bark. + + +~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ +[Q24] ``I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS + works great. But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.'' + +[A24] The glibc NIS+ implementation uses a /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START + file for storing information about the NIS+ server and their + public keys, because the nis.conf file do not contain all + necessary information. You have to copy a NIS_COLD_START file + from a Solaris client (the NIS_COLD_START file is byte order + independend) or generate it new with nisinit from the nis-tools + (look at http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html). + + ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Answers were given by: |