named.conf cannot be changed

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov
Thu Dec 7 00:11:48 UTC 2006


On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:57:03PM -0500, Robert Spangler wrote:
> On Wed December 6 2006 00:32, Doyle Collings wrote:
> 
> >  Thank you all for your answer.  The named.conf in /etc was being copied to
> >  /var/lib/named/etc at startup. I was editing the named.conf in
> >  /var/lib/named/etc when I should have been editing the named.conf in /etc.
> 
> Just thinking out loud here. :)  Please forgive me as I could be 100% wrong in 
> my thinking.  I use CentOS here and it works without a problem.
> 
> Couldn't you just move the file to /var/lib/named/etc and then link it 
> to /etc?  Then it wouldn't matter what file you were editing.  I guess this 
> is one of the reason I don't like having too many config files all over the 
> place.  Never know which one you need to edit. :)

Although a good idea sometimes, in this case disastrous.  Apparently the
file is copied from one location to another in this distribution.

Have you ever tried copying a file over itself?

-- 
Joe Yao
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