nss-myhostname

nss-myhostname is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS) functionality of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing host name resolution for the locally configured system hostname as returned by gethostname(2). This plugin is commonly enabled in the default /etc/nsswitch.conf NSS configuration of RHEL and RHEL-like Linux distributions. glibc has /etc/nsswitch.conf hard-coded as the file location for configuration. So long as core/glibc ships with that setting, this plugin is necessary for some software to perform name resolution with expected behavior. See documentation

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Library package

Use as Dependency

Library packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies, however they are typically used as buildtime dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/nss-myhostname as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/nss-myhostname)

Runtime Dependency

pkg_deps=(core/nss-myhostname)

Use as a Library

Installation

To install this plan, run the following command:

hab pkg install core/nss-myhostname

hab pkg install core/nss-myhostname
» Installing core/nss-myhostname
☁ Determining latest version of core/nss-myhostname in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/nss-myhostname/0.3/20200928180849) than remote version (core/nss-myhostname/0.3/20200403172913)
→ Using core/nss-myhostname/0.3/20200928180849
★ Install of core/nss-myhostname/0.3/20200928180849 complete with 0 new packages installed.

Viewing library files

To view the library files first get the habitat installation directory

hab pkg path core/nss-myhostname
/hab/pkgs/core/nss-myhostname/0.3/20200928180849

Then list the libraries, for example:

ls -1 $(hab pkg path core/nss-myhostname)/lib
libnss_myhostname.so.2