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From: aej@wpi.wpi.edu (Allan E Johannesen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: /etc/exports file records (length problems?)
Message-ID: <6317@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 89 13:47:08 GMT
References: <8066@wsucsa.uucp> <8851@cbmvax.UUCP> <SAUS.89Dec6213757@media-lab.media.mit.edu> <8875@cbmvax.UUCP> <1408@crltrx.crl.dec.com>
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In-reply-to: treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com's message of 10 Dec 89 08:07:28 GMT

>>>>> On 10 Dec 89 08:07:28 GMT, treese@crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese) said:

treese> 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.

treese> You need to use YP.

False (at least on the machines here (DECstation3100's, Encore)).  It
can't hurt to try the /etc/netgroups approach before setting up YP.
It's trivial to try it, anyway.  Maybe there are some machines that
require YP for this to work, but a test should only take a minute.