From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 05:53:27 2012 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B44E106564A for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:53:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75AC8FC16 for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>; Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.local (host109-151-154-120.range109-151.btcentralplus.com [109.151.154.120]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q7N5rHc2011372 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:53:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q7N5rHc2011372 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q7N5rHc2011372; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host host109-151-154-120.range109-151.btcentralplus.com [109.151.154.120] claimed to be seedling.local Message-ID: <5035C544.3070502@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 06:53:08 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org References: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <5035C204.1060009@dreamchaser.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig882ADC9E8F67380ACEDD88D8" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.5 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_PBL, RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, RDNS_DYNAMIC, SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: why does /etc/namedb link to /var? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:53:27 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig882ADC9E8F67380ACEDD88D8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23/08/2012 06:39, Gary Aitken wrote: > Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc= /namedb? Because named chroots into /var/named in the default configuration. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig882ADC9E8F67380ACEDD88D8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlA1xUwACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzGYACfexhp077ICt9URXV21rEFnPww SLoAn0OQrfNsJchIxkU63C4lEtdxezF+ =VIa5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig882ADC9E8F67380ACEDD88D8--