On Monday 23 May 2005 20:52, Julien Gabel wrote: > >> AFAIK there never was a "default" nsswitch.conf in FreeBSD 5.4, I > >> always had to create a new one from scratch. > > > > Well there was one sitting on my system in /etc & I certainly didn't > > create it! This system started life as 5.2-RELEASE, so maybe it crept > > in earlier on? > > If you have a file named /etc/host.conf (as previously used before 5.X), > a corresponding file /etc/nsswitch.conf may be created automatically from > the firts one. This can explain why you didn't create it.
Actually, I've just checked a 5.4 system I'm building from scratch at the moment and it has host.conf & nsswitch.conf on it. host.conf says "Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf" Is this a circular argument? :-) Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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