Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:27:30 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Subject: Re: host.conf or how to change resolve order Message-ID: <20040109142730.GC78376@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20040108180350.C60283@qbhto.arg> References: <200401082112.39118@harrymail> <20040108180350.C60283@qbhto.arg>
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[Moving to freebsd-doc@, where I hope someone will pick this up.] On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:04:45PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I just found that there is no host.conf man page in 5.2RC. > > There also is no host.conf in /usr/share/examples/etc. > > I think it would be useful to mlink nsswitch.conf(5). There is going to > be a lot of user confusion about this. You mean so that `man host.conf' gets you the nsswitch.conf man page? I'm not crazy about that. Perhaps we should re-add a host.conf(5) man page that notes the replacement and has an xref. And pre-emptively, before anyone asks about adding nsswitch.conf to share/examples/etc again, please read: <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.f6oob35.26k52r%40ifi.uio.no>; <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.f7okcj7.3644ir%40ifi.uio.no>; <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=fa.jc0ae16.12ginh8%40ifi.uio.no>; <URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20031201132542.GB99018%40madman.celabo.org>; Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine NTT/Verio SME FreeBSD UNIX Heimdal nectar@celabo.org jvidrine@verio.net nectar@freebsd.org nectar@kth.se
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