[SM-Discuss] /etc/hosts being ignored?

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Mon Jul 30 12:01:42 EDT 2007


On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:03:47 +0200
Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum at orgis.org> wrote:

> Am Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:55:47 -0500
> schrieb Matthew Clark <matthewclark at inlesserterms.net>: 
> 
> > 
> > After your reply, I checked on my other machines and found that they  
> > do have the nsswitch.conf file.  I guess I read my ls output too  
> > quickly :)
> 
> Well, it seems to come from the ISO, not from a spell... perhaps we should change that.
> It's a basic file that should exist.
> 
> 
> Thomas.

What would provide nsswitch.conf? It's mostly a lookup file. Perhaps
basesystem should become more than just a meta spell, or do we want to
setup specific spells for some of these "generic" files?

-sandalle
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