From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Aug 29 5:46:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1119514C90; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 05:46:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.225.214]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB481E; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:44:18 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA49039; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:29:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:29:50 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Nik Clayton Cc: Anders Andersson , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ndc(8) Message-ID: <19990829142950.D47956@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19990826100201.A33426@enterprise.sanyusan.se> <19990826212016.D86126@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <19990826212016.D86126@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * 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 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