named-bootconf.pl

[Jay Nugent]

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>

   You have to tell 'named-bootconf.pl' where the INPUT will come from and
where the OUTPUT belongs and what it will be called.  You do this with the
redirect options '<' and '>', that direct Standard Input and Standard
Output.  Here's how the command should look:

  cd into the directory where 'named-bootconf.pl' resides, -OR- include
the full path to the command.


 /path-to-script/named-bootconf.pl < /etc/named.boot > /etc/named.conf


   This will read in '/etc/named.boot', process it, and write its output
to '/etc/named.conf'.  

   Hope this helps you (and others that have been tripped up by this),

      --- Jay 
             
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