NSSwitch settings on 5.4.

[Ian Moore]

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
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