El día Wednesday, August 22, 2012 a las 11:39:16PM -0600, Gary Aitken escribió:

> Can anyone shed light on why /etc/namedb is a symlink to 
> /var/named/etc/namedb?
> 
> It seems to me this is general configuration stuff which should be in 
> /etc/namedb on the root partition, not on /var.  I thought /var was used for 
> things like logs, process ids of running processes, etc.

Do not underestimate the importants of the /var partition; a lot of
other tool have their "database" there, for example /var/db etc.

        matthias
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Matthias Apitz
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