Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:12:13 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | [OFF TOPIC] Re: Large Distributed Linux Networks |
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On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> FWIW, using libc-5.4.33 and ypclients-2.2-970318 seems to make a fairly > decent NIS implementation. But I've never been able to keep even the > latest AMD up with it for more than 47 days.
If you want to test out new AMD's, send a message to majordomo@majordomo.cs.columbia.edu with the body
subscribe amd-dev
and you will be given instructions how to download the latest version. Don't worry, it's a very low traffic list.
am-utils is still in alpha (meaning it is being developed and getting new features), but it's pretty stable, and the latest one (v6.0a9a, I think) should be quite stable on linux in particular - it has finally aquired the patches from the debian distribution which, among other things, make it not hang when mounting a multi-homed host. We are running amd and am-utils on over 150 computers running solaris, sunos, hp-ux, linux, etc. with fairly large and complex maps and amd isn't giving us problems.
If you don't want to be "on the bleeding edge", upl102 with the Debian or RedHat patches should still be fairly stable. I assume that's what you use though, so that version might be less stable for you..
Sorry for the off-topic post, I thought others might be interested as well. It's only a bcc: to the list so that replies will not reach it.
Ionut
-- It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
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