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From: rfarris@rfengr.com (Rick Farris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Re: nis/yp usage question
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.015803.29278@rfengr.com>
Date: 22 Jun 91 01:58:03 GMT
References: <4932@spim.mips.COM> <1991Jun21.140331.14724@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Organization: RF Engineering, Del Mar, California
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In article <1991Jun21.140331.14724@bwdls61.bnr.ca> marmen@bwdla31.bnr.ca (Rob Marmen 1532773) writes:

>      ...we use NIS extensively. It makes my life much
>      simpler. There is a lot of folklore with the system,
>      but it can be made to run with few problems.

Hal Stern's new book "Managing NFS and NIS", from O'Reilly &
Associates should go a long ways toward obviating the need
for the folklore.

It's the best discussion I've seen of NIS issues, including
suggestions for subnet size and configuration.

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