Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 10:18:37 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: wollman@freefall.cdrom.com, current@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: /etc/rc named change Message-ID: <199503201818.KAA04276@precipice.Shockwave.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Mar 1995 12:30:47 EST." <9503201730.AA27305@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: /etc/rc named change <<On Sun, 19 Mar 1995 17:15:03 -0800, Paul Traina <pst@freefall.cdrom.com> sa >>id: > 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? Actually, I did, but didn't think much of it at the time. My OSF/1 machines all look for named.boot in /etc/namedb. You're going to hold OSF/1 up as the named poster child? :-) > I think a better choice would be to leave the distribution crud in /etc/nam > 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). Did I just hear someone volenteer? > 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. That would be wrong. I'm actually contemplating adding /etc/netstart functionality to specify all the flags, and if I did so, would move the directory name there. That would be fine, again however I would suggest you consider strongly what your default is going to be. I seem to be spending a lot of time shouting into the wind that the principle of least astonishment is something we should be striving for. This week I'm batting 0.
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