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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:37:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de>
Subject:   Re: host.conf or how to change resolve order
Message-ID:  <20040110153648.D9450@znfgre.qbhto.arg>
In-Reply-To: <20040109142730.GC78376@madman.celabo.org>
References:  <200401082112.39118@harrymail> <20040108180350.C60283@qbhto.arg> <20040109142730.GC78376@madman.celabo.org>

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> > I think it would be useful to mlink nsswitch.conf(5). There is going to
> > be a lot of user confusion about this.
>
> You mean so that `man host.conf' gets you the nsswitch.conf man page?
> I'm not crazy about that.  Perhaps we should re-add a host.conf(5) man
> page that notes the replacement and has an xref.

Either one works for me. I just don't want 'man host.conf' to get no
response at all.

> And pre-emptively, before anyone asks about adding nsswitch.conf to
> share/examples/etc again

Nope, I agree that's a bad idea.

Doug

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