From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 20 09:30:53 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA00867 for current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:30:53 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA00861; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:30:51 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA27305; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:30:47 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:30:47 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503201730.AA27305@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Paul Traina Cc: wollman@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: /etc/rc named change In-Reply-To: <199503200115.RAA03293@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <199503200115.RAA03293@freefall.cdrom.com> Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > I think that the change in boot file location for named is gratuitous. > The world expects named to look for /etc/named.boot and when you changed > it, you screwed everyone who runs a nameserver with their boot file as > /etc/named.boot. But you were smart enough to check the diffs before blindly installing the new /etc/rc, right? My OSF/1 machines all look for named.boot in /etc/namedb. > I think a better choice would be to leave the distribution crud in /etc/namedb > as it currently is The stuff from the distribution is almost the correct information to use for 99% of all Internet-connected installations (localhost.rev should be automatically edited on installation, like on OSF/1). > but have the make distribution script create a symlink > between /etc/named.boot and /etc/namedb/named.boot if no /etc/named.boot > file is present. Or you can just edit /etc/rc. I'm actually contemplating adding /etc/netstart functionality to specify all the flags, and if I did so, would move the directory name there. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant