Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Mike Nguyen <mikengu...@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.
I agree; I deal with Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD every day. This may sound pretty Redmondish, but imho the more that things are the same, the better. ct To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
