First off, thanks go to:
Salvatore Saieva <merccap!clark!saieva@uunet.uu.net>
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
mattias@txc.com (Mattias Zhabinskiy 203-929-8810x251)
pamela@Legato.COM (Pamela Pledger)
reggie.beavers@sfwmd.gov (Reggie Beavers - UNIX Sys Admin)
stevee@sbei.com (Steve Ehrhardt)
The correct answer (actually, I think they were all correct, but the answer
that correctly solved *my* problem ;-) was from Steve Ehrhardt
(stevee@sbei.com). He pointed out that if there is a blank line in the
group file that NIS uses to make it's group map, the stuff hits the fan.
Lo and behold, there *was* a blank line at the end of the file.
Why NIS doesn't deal with this is beyond me.
On a (somewhat) separate (but very related note): Does anyone know of a
program/script that will fix such files before passing them to the NIS
parser? Something that I could run the files thru and them pipe them
along. If no-one has one, I may just write it myself.
Thanks to all,
LT
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| Yale Economics Dep't | Lenny Turetsky |
| System Administrator | lturetsk@econ.yale.edu |
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