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Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh



On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:

> Rob Browning writes:
>  > You may want other things in /var too.  For example, bind stores all
>  > its local DNS configuration in /var/named.
> 
> Sorry, this is wrong.  /etc/named.boot and friends are all config
> files.  They do not belong in /var.  Only the cache files belong in
> /var.
> 

This is an area of some contention.  Last time I saw it discussed on
-policy, it was thought that named files are 'database' files and live in
/var (compare to mysql, for example).

Jules
 
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