On 29 Jan, chesty wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:11:47PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At home we have 2 machines, on a local ethernet network. > > Both are running Red Hat 6.2, and both have very similar config files > > (with the appropriate substitutions for machine names and static IP > > addresses). /etc/resolv.conf in both cases say to look at files before > > going for bind. Both are running the same versions of openssh and > > openssl. > > Have you checked /etc/nsswitch.conf as well as /etc/host.conf? Yep. Both machines have identical /etc/nsswitch.conf files. (I diffed them). But anyway, the relevant bit shows "files" first: [...] passwd: files nisplus nis shadow: files nisplus nis group: files nisplus nis #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns hosts: files nisplus nis dns [...] and the strace showed that the slow host *does* read the file /etc/host.conf first - it just doesn't seem to find the information it wants there! (Since the NIS stuff starts, afterwards.) If I want to modify the source to do some printf()s to trace what's happening for the reading of the host.conf file - what library should I be modifying? What provides the functionality for reading host.conf? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
