Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: SLOW SLOW SLOW tar with 2.2.0 | Date | Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:24:00 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <199901290113.RAA27076@dm.cobaltmicro.com>, "David S. Miller" writes : +----- | > Either put the correct account in /etc/passwd and /etc/group or use | > glibc 2.1 (currentlz 2.0.111) with nscd. | | no ! the right thing to do is to remove 'nis', 'nisplus' and | 'nis+' from your /etc/nsswitch.conf if you don't have a nis-server around. | this was discussed before ! | | I agree. I think it's ludicrious to recommend that someone to add | fake and useless usernames to groups/passwd or even worse to upgrade | to a beta version of glibc to fix this problem. I especially don't | expect it from the glibc maintainer himself. +--->8
That depends on whether he's aware that Red Hat ships /etc/nsswitch.conf preconfigured for NIS and NIS+ even on systems that don't use either. (Which is properly a Red Hat bug, unless glibc 2.0 ships in that configuration by default with no warning to change the file.)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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