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I just received my "official" copy of NFS 4.1 the other day, and
noticed that the bug I reported to HP has not been fixed (too late to
make the final cut, but I was hoping they would at least include an
errata sheet! :)

The problem is the services map is created using the wrong word for
the database key.  I've confirmed this by looking at NIS on a Sun and
HP-UX machine.  It becomes noticeable when you boot a Sun.  When it
binds itself to a slave that is hosted by the NIS master on the
Apollo, it complains about a number of services not being available.
I traced it back to an incorrectly built NIS services map.

To fix the problem, find this in the /var/yp/Makefile:

services.time: $(DIR)/services
	@(awk 'BEGIN { OFS="\t"; } $$1 !~ /^#/ { print $$2, $$0 }' \
	    $(DIR)/services $(CHKPIPE))| $(MAKEDBM) - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/services.byname;

And change the:
 { print $$1, $$0 }
to be:
 { print $$2, $$0 }

You can refer HP to:

     Service Request Number 5003095000
     Customer reference number W1813856
     Comsys number J600


One other thing I noticed too.  If you look in the Makefile at how the
.group file is created, it will silently (without warning!) drop
group entries that are >= to 512 characters:

	@(rm -f .group; cat $(DIR)/group | awk 'BEGIN { FS=":"} /^[a-zA-Z0-9_]/ { \
		if (length < 512) print $$0 \
		}' > .group)

So if your NIS map is missing a group or two... this might be the
reason if you have a large number of users that are members of one
particular group.



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