named-bootconf.pl

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed May 2 02:32:54 UTC 2001


At 08:25 PM 5/1/01, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > On Tue, 1 May 2001, Bob Villa wrote:
> > 
> > > How do you use this file.  I have run "perl named-bootconf.pl
> > > named.boot" but this creates no output file.
> > 
> > <RANT ON>
> >    This has been a pet peeve of mine.  I am of the belief that a script
> > should TELL the user the correct syntax of the commands it expects or
> > accepts...  The authors of named-bootconf.pl don't agree with me and think
> > everyone should be a programmer and read the source code... :-(
> > </RANT OFF>
>
>         No we don't.  We wrote a man page.  Documented its use in README
>         with a example.

         If there's a plain text version of this page or a HTML version, I'll include
   it in my binary kits.


>         named-bootconf.pl has long ago been replaced with a shell script.

         Unfortunately most people have a hard time running shell scripts on
   Windows boxes!!!  That's why I include the Perl script in the NT Binaries to
   help people migrate up to BIND 8 at least.

                 Danny



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