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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-05-21 16:24:27 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1998-05-21 16:24:27 +0000
commit3dcf8ea677b811ec326b9692163f9e802663f9cc (patch)
tree1964320d8e3c65d4af3c0f62e894331f313277d9 /FAQ.in
parentd5cd47bd3e1872f5749e838e094b8381a1f5e070 (diff)
Update.
1998-05-21 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> * iconv/iconv_prog.c (print_known_names): Use strverscmp in all tsearch calls.
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@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ package; available at
http://www-vt.uni-paderborn.de/~kukuk/linux/nisplus.html
?? I have killed ypbind to stop using NIS, but glibc
- continues using NIS.
+ continues using NIS.
{TK} For faster NIS lookups, glibc uses the /var/yp/binding/ files from
ypbind. ypbind 3.3 and older versions don't always remove these files, so
@@ -545,8 +545,8 @@ Until ypbind 3.4 is released, you can find a patch at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/NIS/ypbind-3.3-glibc3.diff.
-?? Under Linux/Alpha, I always get "do_ypcall: clnt_call:
- RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused" when using NIS.
+?? Under Linux/Alpha, I always get "do_ypcall: clnt_call:
+ RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused" when using NIS.
{TK} You need a ypbind version which is 64bit clean. Some versions are not
64bit clean. A 64bit clean implementation is ypbind-mt. For ypbind 3.3,
@@ -560,6 +560,18 @@ know about other versions.
(just type `info libc "NSS Configuration File"'). The NSS configuration
file is usually the culprit.
+
+?? How do I create the databases for NSS?
+
+{AJ} If you have an entry "db" in /etc/nsswitch.conf you should also create
+the database files. The glibc sources contain a Makefile which does the
+neccessary conversion and calls to create those files. The file is
+`db-Makefile' in the subdirectory `nss' and you can call it with `make -f
+db-Makefile'. Please note that not all services are capable of using a
+database. Currently passwd, group, ethers, protocol, rpc, services shadow
+and netgroup are implemented.
+
+
?? I have /usr/include/net and /usr/include/scsi as symlinks
into my Linux source tree. Is that wrong?
@@ -829,8 +841,8 @@ siginterrupt().
functions. Why?
{AJ} glibc 2.1 has special string functions that are faster than the normal
-library functions. Some of the functions are implemented as inline functions
-and others as macros.
+library functions. Some of the functions are additionally implemented as
+inline functions and others as macros.
The optimized string functions are only used when compiling with
optimizations (-O1 or higher). The behavior can be changed with two feature