[Sunhelp] change nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf online

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Jarrett Carver wrote:

| Here is the situation. We have recently jumpstarted our systems to Solaris 
| 7. After they are jumpstarted we rdist a new nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf. 
| The problem is that normal services (ping, telnet, etc..) don't pick up the 
| change to the nsswitch.conf, and don't resolve the hostname via DNS. I am 
| able to do a manual nslookup of hostnames and it works. I usually end up 
| rebooting and hostnames resolve fine when the system comes back up.  
| However, I would like to avoid rebooting, does anyone know what process need 
| to be HUP or stopped and started to re-read the nsswitch.conf.

/etc/init.d/nscd stop ; /etc/init.d/nscd start

/dale