From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 4 13:56:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27875 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:56:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from circe.bonn-online.com (circe.bonn-online.com [195.52.214.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27861 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:56:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lederer@bonn-online.com) Received: from bonn-online.com (ppp171.dialin.bonn-online.com [194.162.223.171]) by circe.bonn-online.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA09570; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:52:53 +0100 Message-ID: <36BA16C7.E62BA0E2@bonn-online.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:53:11 +0100 From: Sebastian Lederer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Casper CC: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YP-like mySQL thing References: <199902020728.KAA06671@shuttle.svib.ru> <36B88066.349DA9B3@acc.am> <36B8A152.C10E3B71@bonn-online.com> <36B8D790.34200DB9@acc.am> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Casper wrote: > > > Maybe it's time for FreeBSD to include nsswitch or irs. > Sorry for stupid question , but what is the "nsswitch" and "irs". > URLs are welcome ... nsswitch is the name service switch, to be found, for example, in Solaris: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=nsswitch.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=SunOS+5.5.1&format=html irs is a similar thing ("Information Retrieval Service") and is included in the bind distribution. See /usr/src/contrib/bind/lib/irs . Regards, Sebastian Lederer -- Sebastian Lederer lederer@bonn-online.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message