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On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:53 +0200, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:

> > As far as I know, devfs is a smarter replacement for the old /dev
> > directory.
> 
> Sure...... but on /var/named????? DNS?? NAME SERVER??

Yes.

in 5.3, named chroots to /var/named; the init script for it mounts a
devfs under /var/named/dev (with devfs rules to restrict the devices
that appear) so that named gets a /dev/random and /dev/null.


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