why does /etc/namedb link to /var?

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 23 05:53:27 UTC 2012


On 23/08/2012 06:39, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to /var/named/etc/namedb?

Because named chroots into /var/named in the default configuration.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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