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From: mswan@hare.cdc.com (M Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Problems with YP/NIS...
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Date: 19 Oct 90 04:02:14 GMT
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In article <4958@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes:
>I have problems with setting up YP. We have a CDC4330 (RC3230 Magnum)
>with EP/IX 1.2.1  (based on RISCOS 4.50). NIS (formerly YP) refuses to work
>correctly....
>Are there any suggestions? 
>Is this a bug in RISCOS4.50 or is it a EP/IX bug? Are there any other
>EP/IX users with YP/NIS out there?

As rogerk@mips pointed out to Klaus S. recently, NIS(yp) was moot
in EP/IX 1.2.1.  We have just released EP/IX 1.2.3, which has
the necessary corrections for the problems you encountered.
Bo Swanson, ARH248, Control Data Corp.  \ mswan@biriuk.udev.cdc.com
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