From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 08:09:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972EB16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:09:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7543543D1D for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:09:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id hBJG93wR063733; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:09:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:09:03 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Danny Braniss Message-ID: <20031219160903.GC39087@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-BETA X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: Freebsd Current Subject: Re: /etc.hosts X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:09:33 -0000 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