Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:44:53 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: Feisal Mohammed <Feisal.O.Mohammed@uwi.tt> Cc: FreeBSD-security Mailing List <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pid file for named Message-ID: <200005161844.LAA71684@sivka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <39219248.7628FC0A@uwi.tt> from Feisal Mohammed at "May 16, 2000 02:24:09 pm"
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Feisal Mohammed writes: > Dima Ruban wrote: > > > > Frank Tobin writes: > > > 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 > > > > > > chmod -R bind:bind /etc/named > > > > > > However, the pid file, /var/run/named.pid, which named tries to write out > > > > You can set it in named.conf: > > > > options { > > ... > > pid-file "/etc/namedb/run/named.pid"; > > ... > > }; > > > > However, this will break "ncd", since it's looking for /var/run/named.pid > > instead of extracting current "pid-file" value from the named.conf. > > > > -- dima > > > > That can be fixed as follows, I have two named running > one on the inside interface and the other on the outside > interface. It doesn't do much good, since you still have to type: ndc -c /var/run/ndc-inside whatever_command_you_want What I've meant is that ndc should have a simple parsing capabilities to extract most of the information it needs from named.conf > > -Feisal > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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