[Pdns-users] Where to put configuration files

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

* Yves Goergen <nospam.list at unclassified.de> [100907 22:14]:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a but of trouble installing the PowerDNS server when my
> configuration files is already in place. I already renamed it to
> *.conf.new but it still doesn't work well.
> 
> In /etc/powerdns there's a subdirectory named pdns.d and I believe I'm
> supposed to copy my custom configuration files in there. My file is
> currently named custom.conf but it has the preliminary name
> custom.conf.new as long as the package is not installed yet to avoid
> trouble when installing all packages at once.
> 
> What file names will be parsed by PowerDNS in that directory at startup?
> Will my *.new file also be read? I can't find it in the documentation
> right now, that directory doesn't seem to be documented at all.

The standard PowerDNS Auth Server will only read
/etc/powerdns/pdns.conf by default.
The recursor will only read /etc/powerdns/recursor.conf by default.

If you have any modifications, be it from you or from your distro,
this might not hold true.

-- 
christian hofstaedtler