From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 30 15:24:16 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA03195 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:24:16 -0800 Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA03186 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 15:24:11 -0800 Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA01029; Fri, 30 Dec 1994 18:22:23 -0500 From: Wankle Rotary Engine Message-Id: <199412302322.SAA01029@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: ypserv for FreeBSD? To: kuku@acds Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 18:22:20 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9412301223.AA16723@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Dec 30, 94 01:23:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2182 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk They say this Christoph Kukulies person was kidding when he wrote: > > > > > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > Anyone care to work on this? I could use a ypserver in the worst > > > way right now (ok, ok, we can call it NIS if you really want to). > > > > If you need it right now, you could use the one from Linux. Install > > libgdbm and you should be ready to compile. > > Compile - yes > Work - no :-( Compile yes, work yes! :) Actually, it seems to work fairly well. I have the ypserv-0.11 package up on a 2.1.0-Development system right now. It does seem to work with FreeBSD's client-side YP stuff, though I think FreeBSD's client-side stuff still needs a little work (ps sometimes reports that processes owned by me are owned by 'daemon' and ls, in some cases, says that files owned by me are owned by 'root' -- I think I smell a library problem). What I don't have working yet is yppasswd and yppasswdd, though I have the Linux versions of those too. I also don't know if this ypserv package supports yp-xfr. I haven't tried building the server in the yps-0.21 package yet, though that's next on my agenda. The question is, do we really want to port these over and use them? It shouldn't be too much trouble (I want to convert them from gdbm to db so it won't be necessary to ship libgdbm with FreeBSD), but I think this stuff is GPL'ed. So what's the verdict? Do we swipe the Linux code, or is someone out there already working on a non-GPL version? > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de > FreeBSD 2.0.1-Development #0: Wed Nov 2 23:00:17 1994 > root@mvx1b1:/usr/src/sys/compile/JAZZ -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul System Manager wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Center for Telecommunications Research (212) 854-6020 Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~