From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 08:58:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20791 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20784 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:58:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA38766; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:58:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Mike Nguyen Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 20 Jan 1999 17:58:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: Mike Nguyen's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:53:34 -0600 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Nguyen writes: > I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like > Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too > (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the > analogous file for hostname lookups was /etc/host.conf) -- it seems > consolidating all that config information would in one place would be a good > thing. When I first started using Solaris, it took me a long time to figure out the analoguous file for hostname setup was /etc/nodename. It seems consolidating all that config information in one place, such as /etc/rc.conf, would be a good thing. YMMV. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message