Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:40:10 +1200 From: Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proper way to run bind9 Message-ID: <b34be84204092719407a20d83f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20040927184543.I911@bo.vpnaa.bet> References: <1096042856.24267.6.camel@purgatory.ceribus.net> <xzpsm97v49e.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040924222550.F6548@URF.trarfvf> <1096064849.1047.7.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040925001835.U7126@URF.trarfvf> <b34be84204092718334b4b77af@mail.gmail.com> <20040927184543.I911@bo.vpnaa.bet>
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:54:01 -0700 (PDT), Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > A couple of them actually. We do not want to edit the files as they come > from the vendor without a really good reason, and this isn't one. > > I have a long term plan to write some patches to turn the pid file path > into a --configure defineable variable and send it to the ISC folks, but > it's frankly not that high a priority. Humm, that does seem like the right way to do it, instead of working around the issue by changing the PID file location in two different places. > If you use the system as installed, and/or start from the default files, > it's all there for you. If you choose to vary from that path, it's > pretty much up to you to know what you're doing and why. There are only > so many bullets you can take out of the foot-shooting gun. True -- however, this is likely to bite people who migrate from other platforms where you don't have to specify the PID file location in named.conf, unless you want it in a non-default location. But, people have plenty of toes I suppose... :-) > What would your goal be? With the current behavior, '/etc/rc.d/named > stop' can recover from situations where 'rndc stop' fails. Why would you > want to take that functionality away? Well, rndc is the vendor-supplied tool for controlling the operation of named. The man page for named(8) says: "In routine operation, signals should not be used to control the name- server; rndc should be used instead." Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't /etc/rc.subr use signals? Incidentally, shouldn't the 'rcvar" command print out all the options used in rc.conf for running named? $ sudo /etc/rc.d/named rcvar # named $named_enable=YES /etc/rc.conf named_enable="YES" # Run named, the DNS server (or NO). named_program="/usr/sbin/named" # path to named, if you want a different one. named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf -u bind" # Flags for named -- Juha
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