| Tobias DiPasquale on Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:12:19 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 17:41, W. Chris Shank wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:53, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:24:13PM -0400, Michael C. Toren wrote: > > > Debian does indeed have an nis package available for the sparc > > > architecture: > > > > > > Package: nis > > > Priority: extra > > > Section: net > > > Installed-Size: 716 > > > Maintainer: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> > > > Architecture: sparc > > > Version: 3.9-6.1 > > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libgdbmg1, netbase, make, portmap > > > Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17) > > > Conflicts: netstd (<=1.26) > > > Filename: pool/main/n/nis/nis_3.9-6.1_sparc.deb > > > Size: 179352 > > > MD5sum: 8b38cd4b37a31316457312c7fac6b1ce > > > Description: Clients and daemons for the Network Information Services > > > (NIS). > > > The nis package allows you to use the NIS services from a NIS server or > > > to set up your own NIS server. NIS is mostly used to let several machines > > > in a network share the same account information (eg the password file). > > > NIS was formerly called Yellow Pages (YP). > > > > That shows an entire lack of NIS+ support, which Chris seemed to be > > suggesting he might need... > > > > But I think Debian's behind the times on this (as with so many > > things). Debian is indeed far behind the times and you won't get any more support than what is available by googling "NIS+ Sparc Linux" or some other such string. If they are already on Sun's hardware, then you should stick with Sun. I've tried OpenBSD and Linux on SPARC and the plain fact is that Solaris and associated applications run 10x better on Solaris/SPARC than either Linux/SPARC or *BSD/SPARC. Not to mention that I was a Solaris sysadmin at Villanova for awhile and I never had even the slightest problem with support from Sun; they were excellent in every regard. I use Linux exclusively these days and I'm still voting for Sun on this one. My $0.02. HTH -- Tobias DiPasquale 88FA 30C9 1E63 CFE2 CBD8 37C4 DA1C E2BF 1D26 F036 http://cbcg.net/ Attachment:
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