/etc/exports file records (length problems?)
Allan E Johannesen
aej at wpi.wpi.edu
Sat Dec 16 00:47:08 AEST 1989
>>>>> On 10 Dec 89 08:07:28 GMT, treese at crltrx.crl.dec.com (Win Treese) said:
treese> In article <8875 at cbmvax.UUCP> grr at 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.
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