From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 05:47:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3961065675 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:47:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983628FC1C for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.113.98.152] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T4QG8-0006ne-0O for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:47:12 +0200 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q7N5lDXs001243 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:47:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id q7N5lCOC001242 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:47:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:47:12 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120823054711.GA1210@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r226986 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 82.113.98.152 Subject: Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:47:14 -0000 El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 11:39:16PM -0600, Gary Aitken escribió: > Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? > > It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used for things like logs, process ids of running processes, etc. Do not underestimate the importants of the /var partition; a lot of other tool have their "database" there, for example /var/db etc. matthias -- Matthias Apitz e - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5