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Date:      Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:45:32 +0900
From:      Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To:        n@nectar.com
Cc:        Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject:   Re: nsswitch meets current
Message-ID:  <200009101245.VAA09243@bunko>
In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:14:31 -0500" <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com>
References:  <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com>

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 15:14:31 -0500,
  "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> said:

n> = host.conf has been removed from src/etc.  rc.network has been modified
n>   to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time.  In addition, if
n>   there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
n>   time from the former.

You still need host.conf to run old binaries (including Netscape)
linked against libc.so.3 and earlier. I prefer to warn 'host.conf is
for compatibility with old libc.'

-- 
Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> <tanimura@FreeBSD.org>


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