From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Feb 27 13:24:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F0C815156 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA25318; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:22:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:22:43 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: John Woodruff Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange nis/application problem In-Reply-To: <36D7051F.7A90B7FA@admin.us.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, John Woodruff wrote: > Steve Hovey wrote: > > While the boxes would let a NIS based user log in - pine reported it > > couldnt figure out who a nis user was, and wouldnt expand the to: line > > names of people that were NIS based > > [...] > > I wrote test programs to work out the getpw.. routines - and they > > were fine. > > Were you doing it as root or not? The FreeBSD nis client looks at > different maps depending on whether you are running as root; and the > FreeBSD ypserv gives different answers depending on whether the > request comes from a <1024 port or not. > Either way - it wasnt a nis problem - but apparently a string lib issue of some sort in libc.so.2.2 > > I overwrote the ones on 2.2.5 with the one from 2.1.5 and the problem > > cleared. > > Yikes! Who wants to enumerate the differences in the libc.so's ?? I only posted in case someone else gets chewed and slammed and cant figure out why. > -- > John Woodruff, Sr. Network Engineer, US Net - 301-361-USNET > Washington/Baltimore/Richmond ISP - $6.95/month for full PPP! > PGP KeyFP: 66 18 1A 4E 55 08 40 E2 C7 B1 F2 D1 81 12 6D BF > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Hovey Chief Network Administrator BuffNET More Than Just a Connection! ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message