Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:09:03 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: Freebsd Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: /etc.hosts Message-ID: <20031219160903.GC39087@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <E1AXFpU-000AsC-W3@cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1AXFpU-000AsC-W3@cs.huji.ac.il>
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In the last episode (Dec 19), Danny Braniss said: > hi, > according to UPDATING: > 20000906: > nsswitch has been imported from NetBSD. Among other things, > this means that /etc/host.conf is no longer used. See > nsswitch.conf(5) instead. Note that at boot time rc.network > will attempt to produce a new nsswitch.conf file for you if you > don't have one, and you have host.conf. > > but /etc/rc.d/nisdomain insists in creating it :-) and I don't even use NIS It's not so much for NIS as for binaries from older versions of FreeBSD. They will still expect to see a host.conf. I don't know why it was put in nisdomain.. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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