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. > >