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From: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: /etc/exports file records (length problems?)
Message-ID: <1408@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
Date: 10 Dec 89 08:07:28 GMT
References: <8066@wsucsa.uucp> <8851@cbmvax.UUCP> <SAUS.89Dec6213757@media-lab.media.mit.edu> <8875@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com.UUCP (Win Treese)
Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
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In article <8875@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>
>The use of netgroups in the exports file is mentioned in the exports man
>page.  Netgroups are a part of Yellow Pages so that would probably be the
>place to look for setup information.  I don't know if you you can get it
>to use netgroups without running (yeech) YP.

You need to use YP.

However, to answer the original question:

From a quick glance at the code, the line limit appears to be 2048 on
VAX Ultrix 3.1.  Empirically, we're running about 25 PMAXen here with
a 600-char line with no problems. 

Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese@crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.