Converting named.boot to named.conf

[Barry Margolin]

In article <003e01bfb5bc$f911b6b0$6a699ec0 at india.tek.com>,
Mallik Prasad <mallik at india.tek.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had some trouble converting the named.boot to named.conf., on a test
>machine, I did compile the s/w & did a make install., & then tried to
>convert the named.boot to named.conf
>
>by using
>
>blackcat:/etc >/usr/local/sbin/named-bootconf named.boot named.conf,

The command expects the named.boot file to be on its standard input, not a
command-line argument, and it writes the named.conf file to standard
output, not to a file named in an argument.  So you have to do:

named-bootconf < named.boot > named.conf

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