How widespread is NIS support?

[Andrew Kuchling]

"John W. Baxter" <jwbnews at scandaroon.com> writes:
> Whether or not we could compile it, I don't know.  But if the code in 
> Python expects NIS to actually *do* something, we'll have a problem.

glibc 2.x includes NIS support (in libnsl), so it's available on my
Red Hat 6.2 machine, and probably on your 7.0 boxes, too.  Luckily,
the NIS test is smart enough to figure out if NIS is enabled, and
skips the test if it isn't.  I'm simply concerned whether the module
will compile everywhere.

--amk