Bind-8 directory usage

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue May 23 15:25:03 UTC 2000


   Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:08:15 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at world.std.com>

   Also, IIRC, the named documentation & books do not make it clear
   that (well, at least to me :) the "directory" option only means
   "default directory" & that explicit paths can be specified on
   the zone stanzas.  Perhaps I did not dig deep enough, though...

P.455 of DNS & BIND, 3rd Edition:

directory
Function: Changes the current working directory

That's all it does.  Filenames are just interpreted normally by the system;
I'm not sure where you got the impression that they were treated so
specially that absolute paths couldn't be specified.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA



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