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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users NIS problem with netgroup Post 7767 by loadc on Monday 1st of October 2001 11:01:52 PM
Old 10-02-2001
You must be HUGE!!!
Just kidding,


I had a similar problem, but mine was due to the fact that my groups file was about 16K+ lines long. The version of libs that my NIS was built with had a limit around 15K lines. My vendor told me where I could stick my desire that they re-write NIS on the platform, mostly because they are dropping the OS shortly and going in a new direction.
I am also having issues now that my passwd file is getting too large as well. I may have to move to LDAP, and I am hoping that will work. My company is looking at Active Directory, but I don't see where that'll help me, I can't query it from unix, and I can't write any scripts to update it from there either, so I think I'm a gonna go out and get one of them new-fangled directory servers. I already did it once, and then they canned my idea in favor of waiting for company wide standards for LDAP, well they came out, and they read: Active Directory....


Pile of crap,


loadc
 

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revnetgroup

REVNETGROUP(8)							 Reference Manual						    REVNETGROUP(8)

NAME

       revnetgroup - generate reverse netgroup data

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/yp/revnetgroup [-u|-h]

DESCRIPTION

       Revnetgroup  processes the standard input in netgroup(5) format into what is called reverse netgroup form. That is, where the original file
       shows netgroup memberships in terms of which members reside in a particular group, the reverse netgroup format specifies  what  groups  are
       associated  with a particular member. This information is used to generate the netgroup.byuser and netgroup.byhosts NIS maps. These reverse
       netgroup maps are used to help speed up netgroup lookups, particularly for the innetgr library function.

       The revnetgroup command prints its results on the standard output. It is usually called only by /var/yp/Makefile when  rebuilding  the  NIS
       netgroup maps.

OPTIONS

       The revnetgroup command supports the following options:

       -u     Generate netgroup.byuser output; only username information in the original netgroup file is processed.

       -h     Generate netgroup.byhost output; only hostname information in the original netgroup file is processed.

       Note at least one of the both flags must be specified.

FILES

       /var/yp/Makefile    The Makefile to build the NIS databases
       /etc/netgroup	   the default netgroup database file. This file is most often found only on the NIS master server

SEE ALSO

       getnetgrent(3), netgroup(5),

AUTHOR

       revnetgroup was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.

YP Server							    August 2001 						    REVNETGROUP(8)
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