On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Luke Mewburn wrote:

: The primary reason we don't have nsswitch support for aliases is that
: I didn't get around to writing it, not because I have any objection to
: the idea.

I believe Sendmail, at least, already has the parsing support built in,
intended for systems that don't have nsswitch databases for the ones it
needs.  It defaults to, IIRC, /etc/service.switch, and has the same format
as `typical' nsswitch.conf.

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-- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)