can't find 'change directory' in V8

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon Jun 7 19:39:43 UTC 1999


> >No 'change directory' mechanism is obvious to me in V8. The directory
> >substatement of the options statement won't solve the problem - only the
> >first occurrence of option is parsed - nor have I found a symbol
> >substitution mechanism. All I can see to do is to fill my hierarchy of
> >(now) named.confs full of absolute pathnames for zone files and I find
> >that very ugly.
> 
> That's what you'll have to do.  You could always write a preprocessor using
> Perl or Awk that generates your named.conf file for you.

Why not use relative pathnames, still?  ISTM better/more portable/stuff.

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