[SunHELP] nsswitch.conf

John_Kennedy sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Sep 17 08:19:52 CDT 2001


Try removing [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=continue] from
dns and nis.  Those are the defaults and are not needed.  As to why this
might be a problem I can't exactly say but the less clutter you have in
config files the better they work.
John



Brink Albert-CAB005 wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am running Solaris 7 and NIS. My nsswitch.conf lokks like this:
> 
> hosts: dns [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=continue] nis [NOTFOUND=continue UNAVAIL=continue TRYAGAIN=return] files
> 
> However placing en entgry /etc/hosts is not resolved. How come ?
> 
> Kind regards
>  Albert Brink
> 
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