Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:41:36 +0930 From: Ian Moore <no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> To: jpeg@thilelli.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> Subject: Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4. Message-ID: <200505232141.45173.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> In-Reply-To: <32437.145.248.192.30.1116847324.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> References: <200505160918.16568.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <200505232004.33810.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <32437.145.248.192.30.1116847324.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>
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--nextPart2455505.aBpFbKyNFK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 23 May 2005 20:52, Julien Gabel wrote: > >> AFAIK there never was a "default" nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I > >> always had to create a new one from scratch. > > > > Well there was one sitting on my system in /etc & I certainly didn't > > create it! This system started life as 5.2-RELEASE, so maybe it crept > > in earlier on? > > If you have a file named /etc/host.conf (as previously used before 5.X), > a corresponding file /etc/nsswitch.conf may be created automatically from > the firts one. This can explain why you didn't create it. Actually, I've just checked a 5.4 system I'm building from scratch at the=20 moment and it has host.conf & nsswitch.conf on it. host.conf says "Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf" Is this a circular argument? :-) Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc --nextPart2455505.aBpFbKyNFK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCkciBPUlnmbKkJ6ARAhMnAJ0ePnqvYzvnM225vjQZB464WwCVKQCfeiuQ /t3X9jokYAsUj8yYAze1oBU= =d3UR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2455505.aBpFbKyNFK--
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