From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 14 11:47:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 728CD16A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:47:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.elvandar.org (redqueen.elvandar.org [217.148.169.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3A843D45 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:47:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E68295445; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:44:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.elvandar.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (redqueen.elvandar.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37281-01; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:44:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <419728F9.6010500@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:44:25 +0100 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040814) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robg References: <5c389d3b041113174929ebed62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5c389d3b041113174929ebed62@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: f-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 & BIND 9 newbie question.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:47:12 -0000 robg wrote: > I'm trying to setup BIND and the Release Notes say: > > "When the named_chroot_autoupdate variable is set to YES (the > default), the chroot directory is automatically configured at the boot > time. A symbolic link which points to /var/named/etc/namedb is created > as /etc/namedb, and a symbolic link which points to > /var/named/var/run/named/pid is created as /var/run/named/pid. The > latter can be disabled by using the named_symlink_enable variable in > rc.conf." > > Does this mean I need to put: named_chroot_autoupdate="YES" in > `/etc/rc.conf`? I'm confused on this part... > No as stated by the text, the default already is YES, so you do not have to explictly set it, however to make things clear you could define it so thats even more clear (personal taste). Hope this helps :) -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder FreeBSD Documentation Team