Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!vtserf!creatures!snoopy.cs.vt.edu!lat
From: lat@snoopy.cs.vt.edu (Laurie Zirkle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Blank lines in config files (Was: Warning about /etc/inetd.conf)
Message-ID: <1317@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 16:43:20 GMT
References: <8736@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1991Jun20.194026.26908@fccc.edu>
Sender: usenet@creatures.cs.vt.edu
Organization: VA Tech Computer Science Department
Lines: 5

i don't know if this is still a problem or not, but dbm did NOT like
blank lines in files.  it took a long time for us to figure out why
NIS (then called YP) bombed on everything in our /etc/services file.

laurie