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[20070104] Have the daily security check not complain about a symlink for /etc/named.conf
After my router runs NetBSD for some time now, it complains every night that my /etc/named.conf is a symlink instead of a file via the /etc/daily script, quoting from the mail I get every day:
        Checking special files and directories.
        etc/named.conf:
                type (file, link) 
I've tried a few pointless attempts to make the system accept that I actually want a symlink in the place (edit /etc/mtree/special, put 'check_mtree_follow_symlinks=yes' into /etc/security.conf), but no go. Asking, Manuel Bouyer hinted at his solution for a similar problem (running named in a chroot environment), and apparently the solution is to put the following into /etc/mtree/special.local:
       ./etc/named.conf     type=link


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