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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