/etc/exports file records (length problems?)

[George Robbins]

In article <SAUS.89Dec6213757 at media-lab.media.mit.edu> saus at media-lab.media.mit.edu (Mark Sausville) writes:
> 
>    You should (theoretically) be able to use "netgroups" in the exports file
>    to abbreviate the entries in the exports file...
> 
> Is this true?  I haven't heard this before, but I haven't scanned every
> release note extant.  I was planning to hack the source to do this but
> won't if it's already there.  

The use of netgroups in the exports file is mentioned in the exports man
page.  Netgroups are a part of Yellow Pages so that would probably be the
place to look for setup information.  I don't know if you you can get it
to use netgroups without running (yeech) YP.

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