rc.d/nisdomain problem

[Brooks Davis]

The nisdomain script doesn't properly handle the case where
nsswitch.conf exists, but does not have a hosts: entry in it.  I'm not
sure exactly how I got into this situation, but I ended up with a
machine where my nsswitch.conf looked like:

passwd: files nis
group:  files nis

That caused host.conf to look like:

# Auto-generated from nsswitch.conf, do not edit

That caused 4.x binaries to fail in hard to diagnose ways.  (The program
said the host was unknown, but every test program I ran found it just
fine.)  I finaly figured it out when I ran truss on the binary and
realized it was dying after reading /etc/host.conf.

-- Brooks

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