From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 10:06:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22306 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:06:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.visint.co.uk (wakko.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22215 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stewart@wakko.visint.co.uk) Received: from localhost (stewart@localhost) by mail.visint.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA15411 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:05:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:05:25 +0100 (BST) From: Stewart Morgan To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Comments in the NIS master.passwd file Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, We've got a rather large master.passwd file which we used to quite happily break up into managable blocks with comments (ie lines beginning with a '#'). This works fine with the password routines like pwd_mkdb from 2.2.6/7-stable. Recently, we've moved over to NIS which moans about the comments, lots! The question is, why hasn't NIS been patched to ignore commenting like practically every other configuration file? Or has this already been delt with in -current and if not, could it be? TIA... Stewart Morgan -------------- - Systems Administrator Vision Interactive Ltd E-Mail : stewart@visint.co.uk Tel : +44 (0)117 973 0597 Fax : +44 (0)117 923 8522 WWW : http://www.visint.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message