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From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net>
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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>
Subject: Re: NSSwitch settings on 5.4.
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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.