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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:20:16 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To:        Anders Andersson <anders@sanyusan.se>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ndc(8)
Message-ID:  <19990826212016.D86126@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990826100201.A33426@enterprise.sanyusan.se>; from Anders Andersson on Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:02:01AM %2B0200
References:  <19990826100201.A33426@enterprise.sanyusan.se>

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On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 10:02:01AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote:
> I found that ndc(8) man page is a little wrong, for example
> 
> 'stats     Causes named to dump its statistics to /var/tmp/named.stats'
> 
> is not correct, since named.stats get dumped to /etc/namedb/named.stats.
> 
> It should read:
> 
> '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.

As I say, I could be wrong, but it'd be nice to get confirmation from
-hackers that this is the expected behaviour.

N
-- 
 [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
 non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
 the links.
    -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>


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