On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Civileme wrote:
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>
> OK UPDATE
>
> The netconfiguration log shows all permissions being established properly in
> the exports
>
> The exports file showed nothing unusual except all of those who were not
> being recognized were following one long line that established a common
> workarea for everyone. I moved the line to the end of all the definitions,
> and access began being granted.
>
> I went over the backup file with a hex editor, and over the new file with one
> as well.
>
> Every line ended with two blanks and a line feed. It appears I am
> overflowing a length set somewhere for /etc/exports. Linuxconf allows this,
> by setting up as many accesses to the same mount as you wish. I had 14
> accesses defined for this one mount, and each averaged 23 characters, for a
> total line length of 322.
lemme guess that limit is 250 something :)
> Well, the problem is abated for the nonce, but it is a curious one.
>
> Civileme
I think we all just found out why it uses netgroups :)
