FreeBSD 5.3 & BIND 9 newbie question..

[Remko Lodder]

robg wrote:
> I'm trying to setup BIND and the Release Notes say:
> 
> "When the named_chroot_autoupdate variable is set to YES (the
> default), the chroot directory is automatically configured at the boot
> time. A symbolic link which points to /var/named/etc/namedb is created
> as /etc/namedb, and a symbolic link which points to
> /var/named/var/run/named/pid is created as /var/run/named/pid. The
> latter can be disabled by using the named_symlink_enable variable in
> rc.conf."
> 
> Does this mean I need to put: named_chroot_autoupdate="YES" in
> `/etc/rc.conf`?  I'm confused on this part...
> 

No as stated by the text, the default already is YES, so you do
not have to explictly set it, however to make things clear you could
define it so thats even more clear (personal taste).

Hope this helps :)

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Kind regards,

Remko Lodder
FreeBSD Documentation Team