Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:29:50 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ndc(8) Message-ID: <19990829142950.D47956@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <19990826212016.D86126@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990826100201.A33426@enterprise.sanyusan.se> <19990826212016.D86126@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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* Nik Clayton (nik@freebsd.org) [990826 22:37]: >On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:02:01AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: >> I found that ndc(8) man page is a little wrong, for example >> >> 'stats Causes named to dump its statistics to /var/tmp/named.stats' >> >> is not correct, since named.stats get dumped to /etc/namedb/named.stats. >> >> This also applies for /var/tmp/named_dump.db, that one goes also in >> /etc/namedb. > >Guys, before we fix the manpage on this, could someone please follow >this up with -hackers? I was under the impression (but could be wrong) >that programs weren't meant to do this sort of thing in /etc (or >subdirectories of /etc) and that /var/ is the best place for them. They shouldn't. That's what we have /var for like you said. I do remember seeing something about dumps on one of the lists though. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best If I am telling you the Truth now, do you believe it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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