Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:32:41 +0100 From: "Dampure, Pierre Y." <pierre.dampure@alveley.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nsswitch meets current Message-ID: <39BBB7A9.43DC1CEB@alveley.org> References: <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <200009101245.VAA09243@bunko> <20000911012010A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > tanimura> You still need host.conf to run old binaries (including Netscape) > tanimura> linked against libc.so.3 and earlier. I prefer to warn 'host.conf is > tanimura> for compatibility with old libc.' > > Is there any chance that compat1x, compat2*, compat3x includes > /etc/host.conf for backward compatibility ? Users who install FreeBSD > to fresh PC will meet unpredictable behavior if users run Navigator... > This might be true for the FreeBSD binary, but does not seem to be for the BSDI one -- I suppressed /etc/host.conf and have yet to encounter a problem... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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