named on NanoBSD
Sean Bruno
sbruno at miralink.com
Sat Feb 16 21:03:12 UTC 2008
Jed Clear wrote:
> I just finished enabling a caching DNS server on a NanoBSD based
> platform. I'm not sure if or how I can save all the changes to the
> /cfg partition.
>
> If I were to create /cfg/namedb/named.conf et al., would the boot
> process that copies out of /cfg respect that /etc/namedb is a sym link
> and put it it /var/named/etc/namedb? Is the copy process even
> recursive such that it can handle subdirectories of /cfg?
>
> For that matter where does the copy process from /cfg actually occur?
> I spent some time with grep and strings looking for "cfg" in /etc and
> /boot to no avail. Must be "magic".
>
> Since my config changes will be relatively static, I'm going to build
> a new image with an updated /var/named, but still would like to find
> out the answers to the above.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jed
Check out /conf on your disk. It's where the defaults are placed.
Whenever I copy stuff into /cfg, it is copied to /etc including directories.
Sean
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