pwolfe@kailand.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) (12/01/89)
I installed YP (Yellow Pages) on our network this week, and RCS V4.2 commands
started crashing with segmentation faults. I found (from the getpwent(3)
online manpage) that SGI ships two versions of the "getpw*" calls, one that
understands YP and one that doesn't? Once I learned this, it was trivial to
fix the Makefile and recompile, but I can't help wonder why anyone would want
to ship (and maintain) two separate versions?
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Patrick Wolfe
System Manager, Kuck & Associates
work: pwolfe@kailand.kai.com or uunet!kailand!pwolfe
home: pat@pawnix.kai.com or uunet!kailand!pawnix!patchk@alias.UUCP (C. Harald Koch) (12/05/89)
In article <8911301944.AA11476@kailand.kai.com> pwolfe@kailand.kai.com (Patrick Wolfe) writes: >I installed YP (Yellow Pages) on our network this week, and RCS V4.2 commands >started crashing with segmentation faults. I found (from the getpwent(3) >online manpage) that SGI ships two versions of the "getpw*" calls, one that >understands YP and one that doesn't? Once I learned this, it was trivial to >fix the Makefile and recompile, but I can't help wonder why anyone would want >to ship (and maintain) two separate versions? This brings up a question I have been meaning to ask: Does SGI compile their standard UNIX programs with YP support? login works, but it appears that csh was not compiled with YP; ~user complains "no such user" when that user's password file entry is a YP reference. -- C. Harald Koch Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada chk%alias@csri.utoronto.ca chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu chk@chk.mef.org "There is no problem, no matter how large or how small, that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives." -Leo Graf, 2298
vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) (12/05/89)
In article <664@alias.UUCP>, chk@alias.UUCP (C. Harald Koch) writes: > This brings up a question I have been meaning to ask: Does SGI compile their > standard UNIX programs with YP support? login works, but it appears that csh > was not compiled with YP;... > > C. Harald Koch Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada > chk%alias@csri.utoronto.ca chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu chk@chk.mef.org Almost everything is linked with YP. Csh has been from the beginning, since the 4D csh started life as the 3000/2000 csh, which had YP in 3.5/2.5. (Yes, csh did get re-ported from the 4.3 tape, but that was latter.) Most of the 1000's of machines on the SGI network use csh, and we use lots of YP. You can check to see if YP is present with `strings /bin/csh | grep -i yp`. It would be good to communicate the details of your problem to the Hotline so that the bug (if any) can be fixed or the local installation difficulty (if any) fixed. The only significant exception I can think of is NeWS, which is not linked with YP. Vernon Schryver Silicon Graphics vjs@sgi.com