8.2.1 - two questions

[Christian Krackowizer]

At 18:40 02.07.1999 +1000, you wrote:
>
>> >>there a two things which I cannot handle:
>> >>line 2 'directory . is world-writable'. well, the config files for named
>> >>are in /etc which is not world writeable. image is in /usr/sbin, which
also
>> >>isn't WR. ?
>> >
>> >What directory were you in when you started named?  That's the "."
directory
>> .
>> 
>> this is a possible answer as I did a simple 'ndc stop' and 'ndc start' out
>> from /tmp. Now, I did it again out of /etc and this message wasn't logged
>> again.
>
>	Which is why you should have a directory statement refering to an
>	absolute path in the options block not 'directory ".";'.


sorry to say, but directory is "/etc" and not  only "."

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Gruß

kra1