[SM-Discuss] /etc/hosts being ignored?
Matthew Clark
matthewclark at inlesserterms.net
Mon Jul 30 13:29:05 EDT 2007
Quoting Elisamuel Resto <ryuji at mages.ath.cx>:
> 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.
>
I agree.
By the way: this is a x86_64 rig that was built from the fancy,
graphical ISO (by a fellow developer whose name I cannot recall at
this time) which does not use a guided menu system. With this, you
have to really know what you're doing and be sure to cast everything
you need, otherwise, your fresh install of SMGL won't work right.
This, perhaps, is the reason this particular machine didn't have this
file. Quite likely, there are other things missing, but all works
well, so I don't notice until things like this occur... That fancy
x86_64 ISO was a beta (or alpha?).
> --
> Elisamuel Resto <ryuji at mages.ath.cx>
> Source Mage GNU/Linux / http://www.sourcemage.org
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