On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Curtis Generous wrote:

>     # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf 
>     -r--r-----   1 root     other          93 Feb  6 15:40 /etc/resolv.conf

IMHO, this is a pretty bizzare kind of misconfiguration.

> Changing that to a world readable file caused the errors to go away.
> Note: all other SOLARIS tools (ping, nslookup, sendmail, telnet, ftp, etc...)
> worked fine..

They did not resolve names themselves. They asked nscd to do it. Running
under root, nscd did not have any problem with world unreadable
resolv.conf.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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