On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:53:41AM -0500, Rene Rivera wrote: > The man page is wrong. It says: > > When invoked without arguments, named will fork into two > processes for privilege separation. chroot() to > /var/named, read the default configuration file > /var/named/etc/named.conf, read any initial data, and lis- > ten for queries. > > But it took me a good hour after I posted my question, after already > trying for 2 hours, to figure out that what it really means is: > > When invoked without the "-t" argument...
No arguments implies there is no -t option. There is also a -c option to read a configuration file specified on the command line, and it says where the configuration is read from if you omit that. If you had invoked it with the -v option, it would've printed the version number and exited. So what it really means is what it actually says, and I can't construe it to be incorrect in any way. Being frustrated, missing information or not linking information in other parts of the page, and not understanding the implications of what's written doesn't make the man page wrong. There's plenty of incorrect information out there in manual pages, but not this bit of this man page. -- Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
