Date: 20 Jan 1999 17:58:01 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Mike Nguyen <mikenguyen@sprintmail.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf Message-ID: <xzp67a1x4o6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 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. 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. YMMV. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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