From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 27 7: 7: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5C137B41B for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 07:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2RF6rw87907; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:06:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 10:06:52 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: John Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sendmail 8.12.2 MFC'ed Message-ID: <20020327100652.A87868@blackhelicopters.org> References: <200203262226.XAA27664@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> <026501c1d561$90d61de0$0200a8c0@gauss> <002201c1d59c$0b1a6c20$6501a8c0@techgodz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002201c1d59c$0b1a6c20$6501a8c0@techgodz.com>; from sephtin@techgodz.com on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:31:11AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Set named_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. This will stop the default system bind from starting. You then should have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to start the correct bind. It's almost certainly there already, just prevented from running by the default system bind. On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 08:31:11AM -0600, John wrote: > I'm probably not one to get involved in the conversation at this point (it > seems to have gone nearly off it's topic).. > > Pell Yeasah wrote: > >I've noticed that there are, in fact, sendmail and bind ports -- does > >anybody use them? if so, why, and do they interact poorly with their > >src-contrib counterparts? If not, why are they there? Is there some > >political struggle afoot to cleave these packages from the BSD sources > >proper? Are these old, deprecated ports? > > I'm a *nix newbie. I ran into this the other day. Had my system completely > up and running. (Internet gateway, NAT box, several other packages config'd > successfully). Decided I wanted to install Bind9. > I cvsup'd, and went in and installed Bind9 from ports. > Config'd it according to the bind9 doc, and when I started named, naturally > it started 8.2.4 (Free 4.4 Rel), rather than the 9.2.1.rc1 that I had > installed. Now I've got Bind installed twice, and have no idea what's the > best way to get it working properly. > I'll have to bait friends over with beer and pizza to get them to help me > fix :( > > Is there doc for the ports tree apps ANYWHERE that describes locations that > things are installed to, or what config files are necessary, possibly even > how to admin different apps when installed from the ports tree?? > (Especially since it seems that when installed from ports, it doesn't > install them in their default locations.. thus I have named in > /usr/local/sbin, and /usr/sbin...) > I'm a beginner, and my biggest help with my FreeBSD boxes is a linux guy, > who keeps telling me "FreeBSD is F'Kd up. They do things screwey". > > My experiences with cvsup and installing from ports were excellent, until I > ran into the Bind prob. > > Just my 2c. > > John Ricker > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message