/etc/exports file records (length problems?)

Win Treese treese at crltrx.crl.dec.com
Sun Dec 10 19:07:28 AEST 1989


In article <8875 at cbmvax.UUCP> grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>
>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.

You need to use YP.

However, to answer the original question:

>From a quick glance at the code, the line limit appears to be 2048 on
VAX Ultrix 3.1.  Empirically, we're running about 25 PMAXen here with
a 600-char line with no problems. 

Win Treese						Cambridge Research Lab
treese at crl.dec.com					Digital Equipment Corp.



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