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Re: [LUG] resolv.conf




On Thu, 23 May 2002, Steve Marvell wrote:

As the system calls like gethostbyname all use it (indirectly) and
they have no user restriction, it's got to be 644.

Steve

Of course it will only be read if you have a dns entry in the hosts 
section of your nsswitch.conf

$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf 
hosts:      files nisplus nis dns

for example.

Alex.

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