Hi Warren and everybody, first, let me thank for the fruitful discussion!
> On 13 Jun 2019, at 15:18, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote: > > Many many people don't look at their logs -- could named also print > stuff to (stdout, stderr) when starting? > > Note that this will require some testing -- various distributions use > various init scripts - in many cases things printed at startup don't > actually make it to the console, and I'm suspecting some init systems > will barf, but… It’s undermentioned in the policy proposal, but the named-checkconf will be loud about the deprecated options. We can then bug distros to integrate the named-checkconf run into the pre/postinst maintainer scripts. (Hey myself, fix the Debian package. Ok, myself…) > Another phased approach would be to require users to acknowledge that > the feature is being deprecated -- initially it could warn, and then > named could require command line flags to enable the (being) > deprecated features, and then in the next release they would stop (e.g > named --enable_deprecated_cleaning-interval). I think that this is way > overkill, but just a thought. That would take 4 full years to deprecate single option, as we need to take people that upgrade from ESV to ESV into account, and we were aiming at slightly “faster” approach :-). Thanks, -- Ondřej Surý ond...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users