From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 12:11:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D5716A44C for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:11:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au) Received: from smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au (smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.228.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A792043D1F for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:11:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au) Received: (qmail 31880 invoked from network); 23 May 2005 12:11:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO daemon.foo.lan) (218.214.176.70) by smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au with SMTP; 23 May 2005 12:11:49 -0000 From: Ian Moore To: jpeg@thilelli.net Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:41:36 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200505160918.16568.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <200505232004.33810.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> <32437.145.248.192.30.1116847324.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <32437.145.248.192.30.1116847324.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2455505.aBpFbKyNFK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200505232141.45173.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Uwe Laverenz Subject: Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 12:11:49 -0000 --nextPart2455505.aBpFbKyNFK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 23 May 2005 20:52, Julien Gabel wrote: > >> AFAIK there never was a "default" nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I > >> always had to create a new one from scratch. > > > > Well there was one sitting on my system in /etc & I certainly didn't > > create it! This system started life as 5.2-RELEASE, so maybe it crept > > in earlier on? > > If you have a file named /etc/host.conf (as previously used before 5.X), > a corresponding file /etc/nsswitch.conf may be created automatically from > the firts one. This can explain why you didn't create it. Actually, I've just checked a 5.4 system I'm building from scratch at the=20 moment and it has host.conf & nsswitch.conf on it. host.conf says "Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf" Is this a circular argument? :-) Cheers, =2D-=20 Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc --nextPart2455505.aBpFbKyNFK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCkciBPUlnmbKkJ6ARAhMnAJ0ePnqvYzvnM225vjQZB464WwCVKQCfeiuQ /t3X9jokYAsUj8yYAze1oBU= =d3UR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2455505.aBpFbKyNFK--