Date: 03 Nov 2001 03:34:01 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@elischer.org, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: latest -current broke netscape's name lookup? Message-ID: <xzppu70a8h2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <200111021819.fA2IJbj52538@bunrab.catwhisker.org> References: <200111021819.fA2IJbj52538@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> writes:
> 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.]
Bzzzt! Wrong. That clause needs to be there to prevent awk from
copying non-matching lines from nsswitch.conf to host.conf. If 1Tawk
complains about empty regexps, just remove the regexp, but leave the
clause there.
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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