Re: nis (yp) and large group files.
> We use nis to distribute access rights across a group of servers we use
> for central functions. The majority of files (around 1,000,000) belong
> to a central user and we need a lot of people to be able to modify these
> files, this means a large group file. If more than a certain number (or
> it may be a character limit on the line I suppose) of users are added to
> the group all is well on the ypserver machine but the clients just lose
> all info on the group concerned, without any warning. At which point the
> website breaks and people yell at me!
> Any clues on either what is the limit, can it be extended or an
> alternative system to yp?
> Thanks a lot
> Jeff Green
>
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The problem is in the libgdbmg1 library which has a block size limit
equal to the blocksize of the underlying filesystem.
I solved the problem by recompiling libgdbmg1 using an hardwired larger
block size.
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