Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:36:22 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: "Ian Moore" <no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> Subject: Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4. Message-ID: <13234.145.248.192.30.1116851782.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <200505232141.45173.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au> 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> <200505232141.45173.no-spam@swiftdsl.com.au>
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>>>> 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 > moment and it has host.conf & nsswitch.conf on it. host.conf says > "Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf" > Is this a circular argument? :-) Oops, i answered without a system to verify my though. It seems i made a mistake here, sorry. -- -jpeg.
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