libc and NIS basic questions

moger · 02-14-2003, 12:27 AM

I have two kind of unreleated Linux questions. First, what is the easiest way to find out which libc version a system has? Is it to look in the /lib directory and try to find libc.so.X with X being the version number? 2nd question....If I have two computers running NIS and sharing the common files NIS shares (passwd, group files, etc), as root can I control everything on the other computer from another computer? Let me give an example: Box 1 and Box 2. If I log on to Box 2 as root and set a diskquota for a user who uses box 1, will that change be reflected on box 1? Hope that makes sense.

Wolven · 02-14-2003, 09:40 AM

From

http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~mik/blue/reso...check-lib.html

Quote:

To check your version of libc, type:
ls -l /lib/libc.so.*

The first number after the base name "libc.so." tells you the version of your libc. (libc.so.6.x is the same as glibc.)

To check your version of libg++, just check the version number of g++:

g++ -v

re: NIS.

It can be done, but it depends on your setup, and unless I'm sorely confuzzled, what does this have to do with NIS?

(I'm tired, so forgive me if I just completely missed the boat on that one.)