SVR4 - broken Yellow Pages, slow smtp, no monitor

[Patrick Wolfe]

phillips at qut.edu.au writes:
>They have included all the system calls and daemons for YP except
>for the facilities to use yp login and yppasswd.

It's not just login that doesn't support Yellow Pages.  None of the system
services in SVR4 support yp.  The passwd, group, hosts, netgroup, services,
sendmail aliases, all the get*() library routines, etc - none of them!  Running
"nm" on the binaries shows no sign of the rpc* or xdr* routines.  I don't know
why they even bothered shipping the daemons.  Does anyone really need yp for
anything else?

I like Yellow Pages.  As a system administrator of a bunch of machines, no two
alike, it saves me a lot of time.  Installing a new system only takes 30
minutes (from box to login) if it supports YP.  Also, it's a real pain keeping
track of which of our systems DON'T support yp and performing separate
user/group/host administration on each of them.  C'mon AT&T (or Esix, or ISC,
or ...) - fix SVR4 to use Yellow Pages!

Now, can anyone tell me why SVR4 always takes at least five minutes to deliver
an email message to another system via SMTP?  What the heck is taking so long?

Also, SVR4 could use a decent activity monitor.  Something on the order of
u386mon and top.  The only window into system activity is "ps", and it doesn't
show enough about memory usage or swapping/paging activity.

	Patrick Wolfe   (pwolfe at kai.com, uunet!kailand!pwolfe)
	System Programmer, Kuck & Associates