/TECH/ NIS install, fai scripts?

[Dan B. Phung]

ah, wait, I understand.  the contents of the file are system
specific.  

then...I guess what I really need is to append the contents of my files to
these files.  is there a flag for append for fcopy, or is this best done
in a hook?  for example, I want to append:

+foo::0:0:::

to the /etc/passwd file.  I want to put a list of these entries to append
in a file.  What have others done in the past to install NIS?

-dan

On 25, Oct, 2005, Henning Glawe declared:

> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 03:19:54PM -0400, Dan B. Phung wrote:
> > I understand your concerns with the incorrect uid/gids, but these files
> > will be owned by root.root, which is standard for all systems, so this
> > shouldn't be a problem for this particular case, right?
> 
> well: these files define the id<->name mapping. which is never really the
> same for two systems because of the dynamical nature of these.
> if you copy them from one system to the other, the on-disk ownership of
> _other_ files will be wrong.
> 
>