On 4/1/25 08:59, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 01:36:21PM +0100, mick.crane wrote:On 2025-04-01 13:21, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:On Tue, Apr 01, 2025 at 12:42:46PM +0100, mick.crane wrote: [...]the spaces look wrong to meIf you mean those:192.168.71.122 bpi51e5p.coyote.den bpi51 e5p #3dprinter^^^... 192.168.71.121 mkspi.coyote.den mkspi xmax3 # 3dprinter^^^ ... they are OK. They separate alternative host names. They mean that 192.168.71.122 responds to "bpi51e5p.coyote.den", but also "bpi51" and finally "e5p". Likewise for the other. CheersAh, thanks. I didn't know you could do that.Yes, you can put as many space-separated names in a line as you like (well: one or more). But in a way you are right: the formatting is a bit funny and we don't know whether OP means that. My guess is he does.
=yes. Some of that is spaces and some are tabs, the file does not care. Just to make it more interesting, t-bird doesn't paste tabs accurately.
But I'm far more interested in a critique of the nsswitch.conf also attached previously.
Cheers
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