Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:30:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) Message-ID: <199610232030.NAA10328@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199610222235.AAA20518@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 23, 96 00:35:46 am
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> > This isnt related to dev, but please move /etc/namedb back to /var/named. > > Hmpf. Nope. There's no universal ``right directory'' for this. If > your machine is a primary server, you want it in /etc, since it's a > configuration file. (/var is usually not included in dump cycles, but > you sure _want_ the original tables to be dumped.) If your machine is > a secondary server, you want it in /var. Actually, if my machine is a primary server, I still want to be able to mount / read-only. Since /etc is a subdirectory of / and not a mount point, I*don't*want*any*local*configuration*files*in*/etc. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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