The following reply was made to PR bin/30420; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: List Mail User <track@Plectere.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: track@Plectere.com
Subject: Re: bin/30420
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:44:01 -0700 (PDT)

 	Is the entire "migration" process any improvement over using
 symlinks in /etc.  Using symlinks allows editing the historic paths
 then a "traditional" "kill -s HUP' on the daemons to work.  This method
 aplies to this PR and generally to all "chroot"'d daemons.  It also
 has the benefit of saving filesystem space (assuming the symlinks are
 smaller than the files themselves) particularly for embedded systems
 and avoiding writes when using non-disk media (e.g. CF cards, etc.).
 
 	Examples:
 
 % ls -ls /etc/named* /etc/rndc.key /etc/ntp.conf
 0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  17 Jan 31  2005 /etc/named.conf -> namedb/named.conf
 0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  28 Jan 26  2002 /etc/namedb -> /var/chroot/named/etc/namedb
 0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29 Aug 31 09:42 /etc/ntp.conf -> /var/chroot/ntpd/etc/ntp.conf
 0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  30 Jun 24  2004 /etc/rndc.key -> /var/chroot/named/etc/rndc.key
 
 
 	Paul Shupak
 	track@plectere.com