From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 09:58:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26097 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:58:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peacock.tci.com (coral.tci.com [198.178.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26091 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@tci.com) Received: from guido.tci.com (guido.tci.com [165.137.145.151]) by peacock.tci.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA03623; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:58:13 -0700 (MST) Received: from tci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by guido.tci.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA04542; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:58:08 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <36A6192F.7C253E7E@tci.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:58:07 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis Organization: Tele-Communications, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav CC: Mike Nguyen , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > 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. I agree; I deal with Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD every day. This may sound pretty Redmondish, but imho the more that things are the same, the better. ct To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message