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Date:      20 Jan 1999 17:58:01 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf
Message-ID:  <xzp67a1x4o6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Mike Nguyen's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:53:34 -0600 (CST)"
References:  <XFMail.990120085334.mikenguyen@sprintmail.com>

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Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> writes:
> I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like
> Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too
> (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the
> analogous file for hostname lookups was /etc/host.conf) -- it seems
> consolidating all that config information would in one place would be a good
> thing.

When I first started using Solaris, it took me a long time to figure
out the analoguous file for hostname setup was /etc/nodename. It seems
consolidating all that config information in one place, such as
/etc/rc.conf, would be a good thing.

YMMV.

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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