From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 30 13:27: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3B837B43E for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:27:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22561925A; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA24842; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:27:00 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: John DeBoskey Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, "Daniel C. Sobral" Subject: Re: Request for review: nsswitch Message-ID: <20000830152700.E15458@hamlet.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , John DeBoskey , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, "Daniel C. Sobral" References: <20000830071347.A1167@hamlet.nectar.com> <39AD222B.CE9A26B5@newsguy.com> <20000830132053.A15387@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000830142617.B86368@unx.sas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000830142617.B86368@unx.sas.com>; from jwd@unx.sas.com on Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:26:17PM -0400 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:26:17PM -0400, John DeBoskey wrote: > How about a simple compromise? > > While the internal defaults may be sane, they are `invisible' to > the average user. What if we put the defaults into a > /etc/defaults/nsswitch.conf file. If they need to be overridden > locally, then a /etc/nsswitch.conf file is created and the > defaults version is ignored.. ?? I think I'll just be careful to document the defaults in the man page, unless I hear a good argument for putting another file in /etc/defaults. I don't think it is worth the effort or diverging from the NetBSD code to provide defaults for a file that will typically have maybe two lines, and at most five (with the current feature set). -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message