Bug 144687
| Summary: | /etc/host.conf is obsolete | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Joe Krahn <krahn> |
| Component: | setup | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-01-10 21:21:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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After discussions with the libc maintainer, this isn't really something we want to change. It's needed for compatibility, and is not actually completely replaced by NSS. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The /etc/host.conf file is obsoleted by /etc/nsswitch.conf. This is supposed to only be for libc4/libc5 binaries. It should be indicated as obsolete in the man page, and probably as a comment in the distributed /etc/host.conf. There is still a reference to it in /lib/libc-2.3.3.so, so it may need to be kept around for a while. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): setup-2.5.33-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A Additional info: