> We use nis to distribute access rights across a group of servers we use > for central functions. The majority of files (around 1,000,000) belong > to a central user and we need a lot of people to be able to modify these > files, this means a large group file. If more than a certain number (or > it may be a character limit on the line I suppose) of users are added to > the group all is well on the ypserver machine but the clients just lose > all info on the group concerned, without any warning. At which point the > website breaks and people yell at me! > Any clues on either what is the limit, can it be extended or an > alternative system to yp? > Thanks a lot > Jeff Green > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
The problem is in the libgdbmg1 library which has a block size limit equal to the blocksize of the underlying filesystem. I solved the problem by recompiling libgdbmg1 using an hardwired larger block size. -- Massimo Dal Zotto +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141 phone: ++39-0461534251 | | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | | Italy pgp: see my www home page | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
