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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!howland.erols.net!torn!kwon!watserv3.uwaterloo.ca!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!abrodnik From: abrodnik@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) Subject: Re: NIS under FreeBSD Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: <E8qAx1.M3o@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:36:36 GMT References: <E8M34v.HFC@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <5isval$5j7@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Nntp-Posting-Host: daisy.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39157 In article <5isval$5j7@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk> wrote: >In article <E8M34v.HFC@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, > abrodnik@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) writes: >> >> I'd like to thank to everybody who helped me out by referring to the >> man pages. At the same time I want to warn everybody not to use the >> book "Managing NFS and NIS" from the O'Reilly's series.-( > >A reason would be nice :| Because it explains different formats of files as they are used in FreeBSD (for NIS and for NFS). Concepts, however, are the same. LPA