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Re: NIS on Red Hat...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frederick D. Kass)
Mon Nov 18 12:10:14 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:56:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "Frederick D. Kass" <fredk@darius.pce.net>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Joerg Mertin wrote:
> Well, I'm using the NIS Stuff on a large network and tried to optimize
> some of the ypserver & yppasswd rpm-packages for installation. :) I=C4ll
> make a new version availiable soon, when I get my new Harddisk ...=20
> 5 Gig isn't enough anymore ;)
That would be great... Let me know when you have them done.
>=20
>=20
> According to Frederick D. Kass:
> > I was wondering if anyone could share some information about running NI=
S
> > on Red Hat both as a client and server. In some testing I have done I
> > have found Red Hat NIS to be EXTREMELY spammy as a client. It seems to
>=20
> This is due to the atrun job. In fact, I had to give each client a
> Time-slice and run at onc an houre. It fills up your YP-Server with
> requests and puts the load up for nothing. Just let the atrun stuff
> run once an houre.
You are correct. This seems to be an atrun bug. I do run atrun on my
other flavor UNIX boxes, however they do not do uid to name lookups and
thus do not cause the yp problem. atrun can run perfectly fine with uids.
Who, if anyone, is responsible for the atrun code fixes?
=09=09=09=09=09=09-Fred
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