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

Elisamuel Resto ryuji at mages.ath.cx
Mon Jul 30 12:34:10 EDT 2007


On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:01:42 -0700, Eric Sandall <eric at sandall.us>
wrote:
> 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

To me, basesystem should provide base files needed for the system that
are not provided by any other spell.

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Elisamuel Resto <ryuji at mages.ath.cx>
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