From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 26 16: 9:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 808DD1517A for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 96117 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Aug 1999 23:07:38 +0000 (GMT) To: anders@sanyusan.se Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (forw) Re: ndc(8) From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Aug 1999 00:46:08 +0200" References: <19990827004608.A52663@enterprise.sanyusan.se> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:07:38 +0200 Message-ID: <96115.935708858@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 'stats Causes named to dump its statistics to /etc/namedb/named.stats' > > > > This also applies for /var/tmp/named_dump.db, that one goes also in > > /etc/namedb. > > Guys, before we fix the manpage on this, could someone please follow > this up with -hackers? I was under the impression (but could be wrong) > that programs weren't meant to do this sort of thing in /etc (or > subdirectories of /etc) and that /var/ is the best place for them. named originally dumped to /tmp, as far as I can remember. This was changed (due to the usual problems with symlink races etc in /tmp) to use the same directory as the named working directory, ie. the "directory" line in the named config. Note that it was the BIND developers who changed this. Personally, I don't really like to have named data under /etc, since named data changes (at least on a busy name server) and (IMHO) /etc should not. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message