At Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:12:47 -0700, Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By default in FreeBSD the directory option is set to /etc/namedb (the > traditional name in *BSD), and that directory is set to 755 root:wheel > which means that named cannot write to it after it drops privileges. > This is intentional, and just about all the "useful" stuff that named > would normally write to this directory has another home with > appropriate permissions. [snip] > So I'm proposing the idea of a new working-directory option for > named.conf. Is there interest in this idea? In my understanding, the most important reason for requiring the working directory writeable is to let named dump a core when it crashes. If a new option provides a clean way to achieve this goal while storing "static" configuration files under read-only directories, I think it makes sense. --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
