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diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index b1968bfb46..93784f62f7 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ package; available at http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html ?? I have killed ypbind to stop using NIS, but glibc - continues using NIS. + continues using NIS. {TK} For faster NIS lookups, glibc uses the /var/yp/binding/ files from ypbind. ypbind 3.3 and older versions don't always remove these files, so @@ -545,8 +545,8 @@ Until ypbind 3.4 is released, you can find a patch at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/ypbind-3.3-glibc3.diff. -?? Under Linux/Alpha, I always get "do_ypcall: clnt_call: - RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused" when using NIS. +?? Under Linux/Alpha, I always get "do_ypcall: clnt_call: + RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused" when using NIS. {TK} You need a ypbind version which is 64bit clean. Some versions are not 64bit clean. A 64bit clean implementation is ypbind-mt. For ypbind 3.3, @@ -560,6 +560,18 @@ know about other versions. (just type `info libc "NSS Configuration File"'). The NSS configuration file is usually the culprit. + +?? How do I create the databases for NSS? + +{AJ} If you have an entry "db" in /etc/nsswitch.conf you should also create +the database files. The glibc sources contain a Makefile which does the +neccessary conversion and calls to create those files. The file is +`db-Makefile' in the subdirectory `nss' and you can call it with `make -f +db-Makefile'. Please note that not all services are capable of using a +database. Currently passwd, group, ethers, protocol, rpc, services shadow +and netgroup are implemented. + + ?? I have /usr/include/net and /usr/include/scsi as symlinks into my Linux source tree. Is that wrong? @@ -829,8 +841,8 @@ siginterrupt(). functions. Why? {AJ} glibc 2.1 has special string functions that are faster than the normal -library functions. Some of the functions are implemented as inline functions -and others as macros. +library functions. Some of the functions are additionally implemented as +inline functions and others as macros. The optimized string functions are only used when compiling with optimizations (-O1 or higher). The behavior can be changed with two feature |