On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:40:32AM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > I saw that. I guess my question is whether a default nsswitch.conf file > will be checked into /etc and /usr/share/examples/etc, or whether it > will be left empty? I would expect that if this capability was working, > that a default nsswitch.conf would be checked into /etc. > Adding /etc/nsswitch.conf with the default settings would just slow the things down. For the same reason, we don't provide /etc/resolv.conf by default. Adding src/share/examples/etc/nsswitch.conf and installing it in /usr/share/examples/etc/ is a good idea. > Many admins > may not know the system has this capability unless they see a copy of > nsswitch.conf in /etc. > Many admins should learn how to consult with the release notes then. ;-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer
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