Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:31:03 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Cc: nectar@freebsd.org Subject: rc.d/nisdomain problem Message-ID: <20040319193102.GB30414@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] The nisdomain script doesn't properly handle the case where nsswitch.conf exists, but does not have a hosts: entry in it. I'm not sure exactly how I got into this situation, but I ended up with a machine where my nsswitch.conf looked like: passwd: files nis group: files nis That caused host.conf to look like: # Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf, do not edit That caused 4.x binaries to fail in hard to diagnose ways. (The program said the host was unknown, but every test program I ran found it just fine.) I finaly figured it out when I ran truss on the binary and realized it was dying after reading /etc/host.conf. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAW0p1XY6L6fI4GtQRAoBwAKCjqR3roItuzZifjEH/Md5Q1W5JdgCgrUlk xLnWGTx3tQn4E2RkrvtmCMk= =4uRR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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