NSSwitch settings on 5.4.

Julien Gabel jpeg at thilelli.net
Mon May 23 04:22:12 PDT 2005


>> 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.

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-jpeg.



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