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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-12-16 11:10:36 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1998-12-16 11:10:36 +0000 |
| commit | d8a167a5e5c30bc3ec7d6d978241d0afe097fad4 (patch) | |
| tree | 71ffe6fc59675490625727f7cad145ddd3f4e704 /FAQ.in | |
| parent | 7db169c9d6ee19f1308fb3fd68182981a051aeb5 (diff) | |
Update.
1998-12-16 Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
* sunrpc/rpc/xdr.h: Revert patch from 1998-12-14, partly revert
patch from 1998-12-01.
Diffstat (limited to 'FAQ.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ.in | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ program has the needed functionality. We recommend version GNU make version 3.75 or 3.77. Versions before 3.75 have bugs and/or are missing features. Version 3.76 has bugs which appear when building big projects like GNU libc. 3.76.1 appears to work but -some people have reported problems. If you build GNU make 3.77 from source, +some people have reported problems. If you build GNU make 3.77 from source, please read ?make first. ?? Do I need a special linker or assembler? @@ -813,6 +813,25 @@ allowed to have open at any time using This will work even if the kernel limits change. +?? How do I get the same behavior on parsing /etc/passwd and + /etc/group as I have with libc5 ? + +{TK} The name switch setup in /etc/nsswitch.conf selected by most Linux +distributions does not support +/- and netgroup entries in the files like +/etc/passwd. Though this is the preferred setup some people might have +setups coming over from the libc5 days where it was the default to recognize +lines like this. To get back to the old behaviour one simply has to change +the rules for passwd, group, and shadow in the nsswitch.conf file as +follows: + +passwd: compat +group: compat +shadow: compat + +passwd_compat: nis +group_compat: nis +shadow_compat: nis + ? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them |