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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 08:18:59 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>, FreeBSD-security Mailing List <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pid file for named
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20000516081548.034444a8@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005160634430.21765-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc. edu>

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At 06:48 AM 5/16/2000 -0500, Frank Tobin wrote:
>One often wishes to run daemons such as named under other users, e.g.,
>bind:bind.  In order to allow bind to write out zones and associated fun
>stuff correctly, one then does a

Actually, just make a subdirectory (eg /etc/namedb/s) and chown it. And in 
your options section of named.conf something like,
directory "/etc/namedb";
pid-file "/etc/namedb/s/named.pid";
dump-file "s/named_dump.db";


         ---Mike
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