In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi there. Pete the perenial question-asker here. > >I'd like to look at the stuff for the nis package. Will anything break if >I do nothing more than install the nis debian package (i.e. is it a bad >thing to install on a machine which I kinda depend on?)? I hope to >migrate to nis sometime this summer, and I'd like to look at it first. > >Thanks for the input!
It's probably harmless to install NIS on a machine in a network that's doesn't have a NIS server. However don't put the +:: at the end of your password and/or group files or you will have errors about not being able to bind to the NIS server all over the place. Including cron mailing you every _5_ minutes about it (though that might be fixed in a recent libc5 package). Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg | "Sticky tape is like the Force - it has a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | dark side, it has a light side, and it | | ----8<--------------8<---- | holds the universe together" - Carl Zwanig | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
