lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (07/01/88)
I have two questions. First, can anyone explain why Yellow Pages requires the files served to be in a DBM format? Secondly, does anyone know of a similar service that could be used for non-dbm files? For instance, if for administrative reasons I did NOT want to NFS mount the /usr/man and /usr/local/man pages but instead distribute them in a manner similar to Yellow Pages, what could I do to achieve this? Thanks! -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.
chris@mimsy.UUCP (07/01/88)
In article <580@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: >... First, can anyone explain why Yellow Pages requires >the files served to be in a DBM format? YP is a distributed database. (I have no idea whether Sun admits it, but that it is, if a limited one.) Before you can have a distributed database, you have to have a database. DBM format was there. (Using it, especially unmodified, was probably a bad idea, but that is a different diatribe :-) .) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
sxn%ingersoll@Sun.COM (Stephen X. Nahm) (07/04/88)
In article <580@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes: >I have two questions. First, can anyone explain why Yellow Pages requires >the files served to be in a DBM format? YP doesn't require this. The implementation of YP that Sun has built is based on DBM. However, YP is an ONC service, and the interface that defines it is its protocol specification. An RPCGEN-ready version of this specification is included in the latest release of RPCSRC, version 3.9, which is the unlicensed implementation of RPC/XDR and associated utilities. A YP server can use any data storage technology it pleases to manage the data under its purview. Steve Nahm sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn