Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 18:48:12 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: des@ofug.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: latest -current broke netscape's name lookup? Message-ID: <200111030248.fA32mCs53722@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <xzppu70a8h2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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>From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
>Date: 03 Nov 2001 03:34:01 +0100
>> course, one of the other interesting issues with the above patch is that
>> awk was whining about the empty regex ("//"). Since the idea was
>> apparently to do nothing for such a record, it seemed simpler to just
>> not tell awk to do anything with it, and that seemed to work in my
>> tests.]
>Bzzzt! Wrong. That clause needs to be there to prevent awk from
>copying non-matching lines from nsswitch.conf to host.conf. If 1Tawk
>complains about empty regexps, just remove the regexp, but leave the
>clause there.
Actually, I tried that. Maybe I should have put it in braces, but I
thought I tried that, too. Hmmm... I can hack on the build machine a
bit... I was aware that sed, by default, would print its input to
output, but had thought that awk would not....
OK; my error -- this does work:
Index: etc/rc.network
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/src/etc/rc.network,v
retrieving revision 1.110
diff -u -r1.110 rc.network
--- etc/rc.network 1 Nov 2001 12:39:01 -0000 1.110
+++ etc/rc.network 3 Nov 2001 02:47:06 -0000
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@
print xlat[$n];
quit;
}
-// {
+{
next;
}
' <$nsswitch_conf >$host_conf
Sorry about that,
david
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