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>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 09:42:58 -0800 (PST)
>From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>

>Answer found..
>mergemaster installed a blank host.conf

Try this instead:

--- /usr/src/etc/rc.network	Fri Nov  2 05:53:43 2001
+++ rc.network	Fri Nov  2 10:07:20 2001
@@ -859,7 +859,7 @@
     host_conf=$1; shift;
     nsswitch_conf=$1; shift;
     awk '                                                                   \
-        /^[:blank:]*#/       { next }                                       \
+        /^[ 	]*#/       { next }                                         \
         /(hosts|local|file)/ { nsswitch[c] = "files"; c++; next }           \
         /(dns|bind)/         { nsswitch[c] = "dns";   c++; next }           \
         /nis/                { nsswitch[c] = "nis";   c++; next }           \
@@ -887,9 +887,6 @@
         if ($n in xlat)
             print xlat[$n];
     quit;
-}
-// {
-    next;
 }
 ' <$nsswitch_conf >$host_conf
 }



[Yes, it's more of the awk stuff.  I did a search through all of
-CURRENT's /usr/src (as of this morning), looking for

	\[:[a-z][a-z]*:\]

and outside of the code for programs that would actually be expected to
manipulate such constructs (such as contrib/perl), I found a couple in
sys/boot/common/merge_help.awk; the others were sed expressions.  Of
course, one of the other interesting issues with the above patch is that
awk was whining about the empty regex ("//").  Since the idea was
apparently to do nothing for such a record, it seemed simpler to just
not tell awk to do anything with it, and that seemed to work in my
tests.]

Cheers,
david
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