From: Rick Macklem <rmack...@uoguelph.ca> Subject: Re: getnetgrent(3) fails to parse long netgroup entry if it is stored in NIS Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 23:15:30 +0000
> "man 5 netgroup" notes that a netgroup line is limited to > 1024bytes. > > Are you sure you haven't just exceeded this limit? Thanks for pointing out. It's exactly the cause of my problem. I didn't know there is such limit. From: Rick Macklem <rmack...@uoguelph.ca> Subject: Re: getnetgrent(3) fails to parse long netgroup entry if it is stored in NIS Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 05:12:49 +0000 > Oh, and you can have netgroups in netgroups, so you can > do something like... > > net0 net1,net2 > net1 (host1,,),(host2,,) > net2 (host3,,),(host4,,) > > then net0 has all 4 hosts in it. > > I think you need to break the large netgroup up into sub netgroups > where each one is <= 1024 bytes long. I fixed the problem in this way. Thank you so much! --- Yasuhiro Kimura
