On 5 January 2016 at 17:25, Rob Seastrom <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, that's along the lines of what I'd be doing, likely in awk since I'm > strange that way.
Nothing wrong with a bit of awk here and there. :) > If I were to just keep the interesting lines from both files and append them > to the existing ones on a fresh VM, that should work right? Does anything > get cached in the layer that looks at nsswitch.conf or should I just be able > to append and keep on trucking? I suppose I could go digging in the source > code, but that sounds both time consuming and error-prone... I've been > exposed to just enough flavors of unix to be paranoid about this sort of > thing. I believe our nscd (name service cache) correctly invalidates[1] the cache when you modify the files in "/etc". I do this a lot with "echo", "vi", "ssh otherhost getent passwd USERNAME >> /etc/passwd", etc. Never seems to go wrong! Cheers. [1]: https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/blob/master/usr/src/cmd/nscd/cache.c#L1297-L1345 -- Joshua M. Clulow UNIX Admin/Developer http://blog.sysmgr.org ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
