To drop the order bind, hosts line from /etc/host.conf is very ill advised.
It just took me a large number of hours to track the problem that an essential (for us) software package stopped working thanks for this unnecessary bug fix. I call it unnecessary since that line is simply not used in recent versions of glibc. This program that failed for us is Mathematica version 4.0. This is a statically linked program that uses the order line of /etc/host.conf. (While some in our department have migrated to maxima, several members are still using Mathematica, and failure to have this run correctly is a major problem!) Please don't drop such items with out regard to older pieces of software! Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
