Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:01:31 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Alvaro =?utf-8?B?Si4gR3VyZGnDoW4=?= <AJGurdian@lanoticia.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Proper FreeBSD installation practices Message-ID: <20060131220131.GB38470@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <c78f79e10feecb272db5305e541464ff@lanoticia.com> References: <c78f79e10feecb272db5305e541464ff@lanoticia.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 31), Alvaro J. Gurdin said: > I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a computer I want to use to test BIND. > The newest release is 9.3.2, but the one installed with FreeBSD 6.0 is > 9.3.1. Since according to the ISC's website there are a few bugs in > 9.3.1, I decided to upgrade. > > I then looked over the ports and found versions going up to 9.3.1. So The bind9 port has been at 9.3.2 since late December, actually (8 days after the upstream release). > I downloaded the neccessary files from ISC's ftp. But I started > wondering, where would the most appropriate place to install BIND be? > > My current version is installed in /usr/sbin/named, but the default > install goes to /usr/local/sbin/named. > > Should I let the install go to it's default location, rename > /usr/sbin/named to /usr/sbin/named9.3.1 and then symlink > /usr/local/sbin/named to /usr/sbin/named? > Or, should I tell the proper install flag to install named in > /usr/sbin, and overwrite the previous version?( after all, I am not > going to use it ) > I am planning to put BIND in a sandbox anyway......I ask this mainly to > find out about common practices. Easier to just set named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named in rc.conf and use the included rc.d/named startup script. I thought this was documented in the port somewhere, but apparently not. The rc.d/named script tells named to chroot itself into /var/named/, also. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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