On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 04:16:59PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Guido Guenther wrote: > > Holger Kubiak wrote: > > foo@bar:~$ getent hosts 193.99.144.71 > > 193.99.144.71 www.heise.de > Just noting that 'getent' is GNU libc only and does not exist on other > systems. It is not portable. Then the other systems are broken, because getent is *the* only reliable way to do NSS queries from a script. Every Debian port needs to provide a 'getent passwd' implementation, glibc-based or not. Anyway, it's not like it's hard to port getent to other platforms. :-) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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