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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:35:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-01:18.bind
Message-ID:  <200101312335.f0VNZrk00415@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101312327.f0VNRPv20077@earth.backplane.com>

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>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:27:25 -0800 (PST)
>From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>

>    ndc kill's the original bind and starts a new one as root when you use
>    'ndc restart'.

So don't do that -- quite.  Use "ndc restart -u bind -g bind" instead.
(Granted, that's more keystrokes to remember & get wrong....  Maybe if
named.pid were structed like sendmail.pid, that would provide a way to
automate the process a little better.)

Cheers,
david
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David Wolfskill      dhw@whistle.com   UNIX System Administrator
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