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Date:      Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:27:49 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Grover Lines <grover@ceribus.net>
Subject:   Re: Proper way to run bind9
Message-ID:  <20040924222550.F6548@URF.trarfvf>
In-Reply-To: <xzpsm97v49e.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <1096042856.24267.6.camel@purgatory.ceribus.net> <xzpsm97v49e.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Grover Lines <grover@ceribus.net> writes:
>> named_pidfile="/var/run/named/pid" # Must set this in named.conf as well
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> should be /var/run/named.pid, fixed in CVS.
>
> DES
>

It's actually not named.pid in our structure. As explained in the note 
behind the variable, we set the pid-file variable in named.conf so that 
named running wit h -u bind (but not chrooted) will still be able to 
drop a pid file in /var/run/named, which is chowned to user bind.

To answer Grover's question, it really depends on what you want to use 
it for. The system named.conf will run fine for bind 9 as a resolver, 
now that the /etc/rc.d/named script has been updated to create an 
rndc.key file if one doesn't exist.

If all you want to do is start up named as a resolver, 
named_enable="yes" is all you need. You don't need to specify the conf 
file to run the system's version of bind, that path is defined in.

I'm currently working on a setup so that named can be started chrooted 
by default. Not sure if that will get in before 5.3-RELEASE or not, but 
I'm hoping it will.

Doug


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