> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:13:21 -0500
> From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@auchentoshan.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
> 
> > ...I'd say this was fine as long as the nsswitch back-ends and ld.so
> > lived in /lib ...  I dunno... I'd like to have _some_ functionality
> > when in single-user mode...
> 
> they have to live there, really.
> 
> you might be mounting /usr via NFS, and want to be doing hostname
> lookups (e.g. for your server's name 8-) via YP...

Nah, just put the IP address for the /usr server in /etc/hosts
(assuming "file" lookup does not use rtld, as I've suggested).

Gordon