From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 23 16:22:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA19074 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA18991 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA01018 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:21:24 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA05158 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:21:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id AAA29113 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:59:42 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610232259.AAA29113@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: read only root: (was Re: comments on this change please.) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 00:59:42 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Oct 24, 96 07:39:34 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Hancock wrote: > > The shipped namedb files are non-working samples anyway. So would > > a commented-out > > > > # directory /var/namedb > > Did you mean /etc/namedb? No, you wanted /var/namedb, so my offer is to put this as a hint into the /etc/namedb/named.boot file (with some additional commentary to explain why). The named.boot cannot be used out of the box at all, it always requires customization. So by placing the hint, the local admin could decide to move all of this over to /var/namedb/, if this is what he prefers. > over to it in the sysconfig file. Actually, I didn't check if I really > need to do this, is /etc/namedb/named.boot compiled into the FreeBSD > named? Nevermind, it's probably /etc/named.boot. Yes, that's why there are extra arguments (as a hint) in sysconfig, overriding the default config file. (Btw., i prefer using a symlink to /etc/named.boot myself.) > I didn't notice the ndc utilities that come with BIND. I started using > these a year ago and I miss these. e.g. ndc reload, ndc stop, ndc start, > ndc status, etc. They are also available in FreeBSD now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)