NIS?

Greg Lindahl lindahl at conservativecomputer.com
Thu Oct 4 14:28:20 PDT 2001


On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:52:01PM +0200, Jakob Østergaard wrote:

> > Heck, no. files rock, NIS sucks.
> 
> Yeah,  and aerodynamics are for people who can't design engines.

Eh?

Don Becker gave some good reasons why NIS isn't used by most big
clusters. The investment bank I used to work for (5 years ago) made
every machine a slave in order to avoid NIS's braindamage.

I'm not sure if you're disagreeing or agreeing with your comment.
Perhaps I'm being dense today...

g





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