From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBgjZ-00018f-92 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:15:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1LNEEb2027106; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:14:14 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cumulus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1LN9IQv011308 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 23:09:19 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74A87C725 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:09:15 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off' From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43FB9668.2060604@joat.com> References: <1140483471.10641.4.camel@orpheus> <43FB3927.802@pnpitalia.it> <43FB4412.3060804@joat.com> <200602211932.19481.rumen@qrypto.org> <43FB9668.2060604@joat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:39:10 +0930 Message-Id: <1140563350.20607.8.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 71883cdc-4973-41be-85a5-5a2fa3150b45 X-Archives-Hash: 8e087845f75bc6a3c642ad297503abc8 wooooah horsey, whoah! OK... 1. I could have deleted the line by myself, but I didn't because I've never touched /etc/host.conf so far, and because it belonged to glibc, I didn't want to stuff around with it. My system is working, even though I get this "error" message, so I left it as is until I was sure. 2. Yes I am running an unstable system (~x86), and that includes glibc, gcc, kernels, and every other package I have installed. I am aware that from time to time this may cause problems, but I do it for two reasons: a) I like to help as much as I can in detecting and reporting bugs before they make it to x86 (or other archs), because even though I'm employed as one, I'm not much of a programmer :P b) I like having new features and fixes sooner rather than later. 3. Thanks for the comments, especially from Rumen quoting the einfo lines - I only have warnings mailed to me so I missed that one. 4. I think I will file a bug - IMHO there should have been a new /etc/host.conf, which would have then been labelled ._cfg_host.conf (or whatever) and I would have resolved the problem myself. If it got me worried, it's going to get a lot more people worried when it hits x86. cya, -- Iain Buchanan ... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list