From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 10 9:32:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.netbenefit.co.uk (mailhost.netbenefit.co.uk [212.53.64.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F11FF37B424 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 09:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.159.26.131] (helo=alveley.org) by mailhost.netbenefit.co.uk with esmtp (NetBenefit 1.5) id 13YA25-0007jS-00 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:32:41 +0100 Message-ID: <39BBB7A9.43DC1CEB@alveley.org> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:32:41 +0100 From: "Dampure, Pierre Y." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nsswitch meets current References: <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <20000906151431.A26152@hamlet.nectar.com> <200009101245.VAA09243@bunko> <20000911012010A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > > tanimura> You still need host.conf to run old binaries (including Netscape) > tanimura> linked against libc.so.3 and earlier. I prefer to warn 'host.conf is > tanimura> for compatibility with old libc.' > > Is there any chance that compat1x, compat2*, compat3x includes > /etc/host.conf for backward compatibility ? Users who install FreeBSD > to fresh PC will meet unpredictable behavior if users run Navigator... > This might be true for the FreeBSD binary, but does not seem to be for the BSDI one -- I suppressed /etc/host.conf and have yet to encounter a problem... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message