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change passwd – permission denied (NIS)

Change passwd – permission denied (NIS) I setup a new NIS server and put the NIS source files in /var/yp/src/ The command line “passwd” gave me a permission denied when changing an NIS user’s password. A restart of yp fixed the problem for me.. Eventually I restarted NIS with: [bash] /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart [/bash]
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Perl Split

Perl Split A very useful function in Perl is split, which splits up a string and places it into an array. The function uses a regular expression and as usual works on the $_ variable unless otherwise specified. The split function is used like this: [perl] $info = “Caine:Michael:Actor:14, Leafy Drive”; @personal = split(/:/, $info); […]
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Perl Hashes – HowTo

Perl Hash Howto This how-to comes with no guaratees other than the fact that these code segments were copy/pasted from code that I wrote and ran successfully. Initialize (clear, or empty) a hash Assigning an empty list is the fastest method. Solution my %hash = (); Initialize (clear, or empty) a hash reference People have […]
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