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From: bsteve@gorgo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: YP required with NFS?
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Date: Mon, 12-Jan-87 23:19:00 EST
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In response to: mwm@violet.BERKELEY.EDU comp.unix.wizards
Subject: YP required with NFS?

>And yes, some sort of service like yp is needed. However, yp is *not*
>the answer.  ....A nice, simple
>approach would be to make /etc/hosts, and other such things a symlink
>onto a remote mounted file system. I can't see any problems with that
>approach, (other than needing the real files there while you boot),
>but there are probably some. Anyone tried something like this yet?
>
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