named-bootconf.pl

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> 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.

	named-bootconf.pl has long ago been replaced with a shell script.

	Note it is a little hard to make it give a error message when it
	is invoked correctly (no arguements is correct), even it it is not
	being used correctly.

	Mark

> 
>    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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