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@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ please let me know.
 
 [Q23]	``When compiling GNU libc I get lots of errors saying functions
 	  in glibc are duplicated in libgcc.''
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+[Q24]	``I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS
+	  works great.  But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.''
 
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 [Q1]	``What systems does the GNU C Library run on?''
@@ -674,6 +677,21 @@ you first delete config.cache.
 some problems of this kind.  The setting of CFLAGS is checked at the
 very beginning and if it is not usable `configure' will bark.
 
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+[Q24]	``I have set up /etc/nis.conf, and the Linux libc 5 with NYS
+	  works great.  But the glibc NIS+ doesn't seem to work.''
+
+[A24]	The glibc NIS+ implementation uses a /var/nis/NIS_COLD_START
+	file for storing information about the NIS+ server and their
+	public keys, because the nis.conf file do not contain all
+	necessary information.  You have to copy a NIS_COLD_START file
+	from a Solaris client (the NIS_COLD_START file is byte order
+	independend) or generate it new with nisinit from the nis-tools
+	(look at http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html).
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