Hi. On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 08:41:47AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 06:35:53AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > yup, and if the repos were open... They are not as I've previously > > posted. I can report that apt --purge does not, I still see > > an /etc/nsswitch.conf, even though ts been purged. > > ... what. > > Gene, /etc/nsswitch.conf is NOT part of any Debian package.
Actually, nsswitch.conf is created by postinst script of libc-bin package, to technically nsswitch.conf is a part of libc-bin. > It's part of the core installation. It is absolutely fundamental to > the operation of basically every single piece of the operating system > above the boot loader, the kernel, the ld.so shared library loader, > and libc. nsswitch.conf(5) says: The Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file, /etc/nsswitch.conf, is used by the GNU C Library... > wooledg:~$ dpkg -S /etc/nsswitch.conf > dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/nsswitch.conf grep nsswitch /var/lib/dpkg/info/* Reco
