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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