Re: SLOW SLOW SLOW tar with 2.2.0

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:24:00 -0500

In message <199901290113.RAA27076@dm.cobaltmicro.com>, "David S. Miller"
writes
:
+-----
| > Either put the correct account in /etc/passwd and /etc/group or use
| > glibc 2.1 (currentlz 2.0.111) with nscd.
|
| no ! the right thing to do is to remove 'nis', 'nisplus' and
| 'nis+' from your /etc/nsswitch.conf if you don't have a nis-server around.
| this was discussed before !
|
| I agree. I think it's ludicrious to recommend that someone to add
| fake and useless usernames to groups/passwd or even worse to upgrade
| to a beta version of glibc to fix this problem. I especially don't
| expect it from the glibc maintainer himself.
+--->8

That depends on whether he's aware that Red Hat ships /etc/nsswitch.conf
preconfigured for NIS and NIS+ even on systems that don't use either.
(Which is properly a Red Hat bug, unless glibc 2.0 ships in that
configuration by default with no warning to change the file.)

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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