Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:47:12 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var? Message-ID: <20120823054711.GA1210@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org> References: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org>
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El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 11:39:16PM -0600, Gary Aitken escribió: > Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb? > > It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var. I thought /var was used for things like logs, process ids of running processes, etc. Do not underestimate the importants of the /var partition; a lot of other tool have their "database" there, for example /var/db etc. matthias -- Matthias Apitz e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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