Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:02:38 +0000 From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf Message-ID: <E103F4Y-0000NV-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Mike Nguyen's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:53:34 -0600 (CST)" References: <XFMail.990120085334.mikenguyen@sprintmail.com>
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Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> 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. There was talk of integrating into libc something which we already have in our tree: irs.conf. It's part of the bind source. Nothing seems to have happened though. It's a fairly major change to lots of libc. -- When I said "we", officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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