Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-07 Thread Raul Miller
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not saying this is the "right" way to think about it, just > explaining where my reaction was based... Note that you can always make a local modification which puts the dns stuff in /etc, leaving a symlink at /var/named/. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-07 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > My reading shows that named zone databases should go in > /var/state/named. However, the existance of /var/nis and /var/yp make > me think that /var/named makes more sense, and of course is in line > with historical practice. Can anyone enlighten this

Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-07 Thread Michael Bramer
On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 01:11:48AM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If this true, then we must move a lot of files from /var/lists/*, > > > /var/named (and more?) to /etc// > > > Yep. For example, as far a

Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-07 Thread Adam P. Harris
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If this true, then we must move a lot of files from /var/lists/*, > > /var/named (and more?) to /etc// > Yep. For example, as far as I can tell, most of /var/named should be > in /etc/named. Symlinks from /

Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-06 Thread Rob Browning
Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this true, then we must move a lot of files from /var/lists/*, /var/named > (and more?) to /etc// Yep. For example, as far as I can tell, most of /var/named should be in /etc/named. Symlinks from /var could, of course, be provided for backwards

Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-06 Thread Michael Bramer
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:25:03AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > --On Fri, Jul 3, 1998 7:09 pm -0500 "Rob Browning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > In particular, as people have mentioned before, it is important that /usr > can be considered read-only after install. Although current dpkg styles do >

Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-04 Thread Jules Bean
--On Fri, Jul 3, 1998 7:09 pm -0500 "Rob Browning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> app should look for a app.gtkrc file in /etc or somewhere else. But I >> would like a more broad discussion on what we feel a conffile is. I >> feel that /etc is getting fill

Re: Question on conf files

1998-07-04 Thread Rob Browning
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > app should look for a app.gtkrc file in /etc or somewhere else. But I > would like a more broad discussion on what we feel a conffile is. I > feel that /etc is getting filled w/ many useless conf files that could > prolly go elsewhere. On many commercial UNI

Question on conf files

1998-07-03 Thread Shaleh
A few of us have been talking about what exactly constitutes a "conf" file. Would someone with more experience care to weigh in on this. Basically the question is from debian-mentors and regards whether the app should look for a app.gtkrc file in /etc or somewhere else. But I would like a more b