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?
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Joe Yao
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