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From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Is a YP/NIS client available?
Date: 12 Oct 1993 12:56:50 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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Distribution: world
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References: <661@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <29cbe8$pca@wzv.win.tue.nl> <29e12d$ege@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
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In article <29e12d$ege@mips.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>, wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:
|> In article <29cbe8$pca@wzv.win.tue.nl>,
|> Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> wrote:
|> >NetBSD has it running. 
|> I know. But I would prefer not to change my *whole* stuff for that.

Since yp is implemented in the c library (for the getuid and friend functions),
you will have to patch, recompile, reinstall the libc, and then recompile all the
distribution and applications.

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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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