From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 17 11: 1: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 17 11:01:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55C937B404; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:01:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653D3193E1; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:01:00 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eBHJ10D62647; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:01:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:01:00 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel type Message-ID: <20001217130100.B62616@hamlet.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Robert Watson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <85112.977020676@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:27:55PM -0500 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: nectar@nectar.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:27:55PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > -- I've been seriously considering looking at adapting > FreeBSD to use netinfo also, given that it provides a time-tested model > for configuration management (local and distributed). It probably needs > some cleaning up in the security sense, and possibly rewriting, but it's a > strong starting point, and liberally licensed. Most of netinfo will be supported via nsswitch and PADL.COM's nss-netinfo for FreeBSD 5.0. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message