includes not working bind822p5

[Barry Margolin]

In article <20000413201413.M21105 at stahlw06.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de>,
Ralf Hildebrandt  <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:56:17PM -0400, Matt Martini wrote:
>
>> If I use:
>>     include "/usr/local/named/named.conf_zones_for_sec";
>
>Is this path interpreted relative to the path specified in 
>
>options {
>   directory "/usr/local/named";                               
>};
>
>or is it absolute?

A relative path will be interpreted relative to the directory option (all
that option does is tell named to perform a chdir()).  But since the
pathname starts with "/" it's not a relative pathname in the first place.
The OS will treat it as an absolute pathname.

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