Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-22 Thread Erik H. Bakke
>On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 05:58:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >> Mike Nguyen writes: >> consolidating all that config information in one place, such as >> /etc/rc.conf, would be a good thing. > >Agreed, it really isn't such a good idea to clutter /etc/ with all >those single line configura

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-21 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
"Joerg B. Micheel" writes: > > consolidating all that config information in one place, such as > > /etc/rc.conf, would be a good thing. > Agreed, it really isn't such a good idea to clutter /etc/ with all > those single line configuration files. Actually, they did it for a reason, and it's not re

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-21 Thread David E. Cross
Yes, indeed, I have looked at nsd in Irix 6.5 and I like it. What Irix does well, Irix does very well (save a couple of PRs I have filed with SGI of course ;). -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-21 Thread Dom Mitchell
Mike Nguyen writes: > I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like > Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too > (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the > analogous file for hostname

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-20 Thread Joerg B. Micheel
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 05:58:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Mike Nguyen writes: > > I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like > > Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too > > (when I first started u

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-20 Thread Chris Csanady
>I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like >Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too >(when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the >analogous file for hostname lookups was /etc/host

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-20 Thread Chris Tubutis
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Mike Nguyen writes: > > I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like > > Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too > > (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long tim

Re: /etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-20 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Mike Nguyen writes: > I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like > Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too > (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the > analogous file for hostname

/etc/nsswitch.conf

1999-01-20 Thread Mike Nguyen
I noticed that NetBSD is switching over to using /etc/nsswitch.conf (like Slowlaris, PH-UX, etc.). Would it be a good idea to do this for FreeBSD too (when I first started using FreeBSD, it took me a long time to figure out the analogous file for hostname lookups was /etc/host.conf) -- it seems