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Last year I posted I had written some new internet drafts designed to replace NIS and which would be the next evolution of RFC2307 (a standard describing how to represent NIS data in LDAP).

DBIS...

What do people think of this tool? pkgtree (https://github.com/quattor/pkgtree) - for displaying a visual representation of Solaris IPS package dependencies.

You're quite right of course, and a reference implementation is indeed the next thing I'm working on. This is the way I work, I design on paper first, then implement. Others may have elected to get...

I've released a set of new Internet Drafts that describe DBIS: an alternative to NIS and to the RFC2307 schema that has been used to date for representing NIS data in an LDAP Directory Server.

I'm...

Well I've published my Internet Drafts now, so would appreciate feedback.

Directory-Based Information Services (DBIS) is a new replacement for the Network Information Service (NIS)...

Being no EMC expert, my guess is that you will need to set-up some udev rules (http://doc.opensuse.org/products/draft/SLES/SLES-admin_sd_draft/cha.udev.html). However, this may also become a tedious...

Surprisingly, yes they do. LDAP is not a replacement for NIS, it is a network protocol for accessing an X.500-based directory. NIS data can be stored in an LDAP-compliant directory using the...

I agree, this is why I am looking to suggest improvements to it. My experience is the same as yours, it's always empty, and the host field sometimes is and sometimes is not fully qualified.
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I'm considering the merits of slightly redefining the "domain" field in a NIS netgroup (the third field in the triple) to make it more useful, in a new Internet Draft that I am currently developing. ...

In Solaris 10 it was easy, a simple grep through modinfo output and you'd have the version of any loaded module, including your NIC drivers. In my career I've seen many people relying on this...

Until I really began to explore the practical implications of using ZFS with VCS, I would not have necessarily realised the obstacles that would be put in my path. Data integrity is a must-have for...

It'll be a message written in English. To crack the code, it might help to know more about the guy who invented it.

I've recently published a set of tools that allow you to continue to use the ypwhich, ypcat and ypmatch tools in an environment where NIS maps have been migrated to LDAP using the RFC2307 schema.
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Inspired by the GCHQ talent spotting code-cracker competition (http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/) :eek:, here is my own little brain puzzler for budding cracker enthusiasts. Can you crack this code?...

Hi,

I'm considering implementing pam_krb5 on RHEL 5.5 and Solaris 10, and I'm in an environment that has a number of legacy NIS domains. They've all been migrated into Active Directory, RFC2307,...

I've recently been working with k5start (http://www.eyrie.org/%7Eeagle/software/kstart/) on a RHEL 5 client and noticed that it lacked a start-up script. As usual, it seems such a waste for me to...

Thanks Dennis. Although I am sure there are other ways of disabling the authentication cache if you're not using Subversion client default settings, e.g.
store-auth-creds = noRather than write in...

The trouble with using a FIFO is that's not going to support multiple clients attempting to contact the daemon simultaneously ...

Maybe I've just reached the limit of what is achievable in...

I've written a daemon in bash, that waits for a HUP signal and then does some processing, before waiting for the next HUP. It goes something like this:
trap gothup=1 HUP
while :; do
gothup=0...

I realise that with GNU 'info' a lot of developers become, dare I say it, quite lazy when it comes to providing a well written man page - and some argue they're not needed at all. But I find, in the...

I've amended my original svn_wrapper script with a minor fix for handling greater than 9 arguments. Please find attached.

Best regards,
Mark Bannister.

A tab character is designed to help you produce tables using columns that are aligned with each other. If it always produced a fixed number of spaces it would be pretty pointless in aligning...

Well, you could start with this, and modify accordingly:
#!/bin/ksh
badopt=0
current=
olddate=

while getopts c:o: opt
do
case $opt in
c) current="$OPTARG";;
o) ...

Unfortunately both of Franklin's solutions do rather make an assumption that there won't be any other chevrons on the line. These aren't ideal solutions.

I prefer the answer submitted by...

That's because you need spaces between your square brackets and contents of the test. In the following example, the first test succeeds, the second test errors:
if [ 1 -eq 1 ]; then echo yes; fi...