From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 00:20:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02435 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02429 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.54.180] (helo=myrddin.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 103FLq-0001AB-00; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:20:31 +0000 Received: from localhost (myrddin.demon.co.uk) [127.0.0.1] by myrddin.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 103F4Y-0000NV-00; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:02:38 +0000 To: Mike Nguyen Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf References: From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: Mike Nguyen's message of "Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:53:34 -0600 (CST)" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:02:38 +0000 Message-Id: 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. 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