named=YES               named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"

That's how I do it.

Regards
Nigel

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 04:29:50PM -0700, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having trouble figuring out how to get named running using the existing
> rc file structure of NetBSD-1.5.2.  If I add 'named=YES' to rc.conf, I get
> a "can't open /etc/named.conf" error message.  Of course, there is no
> /etc/named.conf - the named.conf that comes with NetBSD-1.5.2 is in
> /var/namedb.  If I manually invoke named with "-w /etc/namedb" everything
> works.  I'm just trying to understand what I'm expected to do to get this
> going without tweaking something*.  I can always move
> /etc/namedb/named.conf to /etc, but it seems odd that the distro would ship
> that way.
> 
> * Obviously I've modified the named.conf and added my own zone files. :-)
> 
> Pointers appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> -bp
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