Bind 8.2.3 default directories

Cricket Liu cricket at VeriSign.com
Sun Feb 4 01:01:39 UTC 2001


Hi, Ali.  How are you?

> Is there anyway to tell named to look at /usr/sbin and /etc for the
> binaries and config files instead of the default /usr/local/sbin and
> /usr/local/etc directories?
> 
> After upgrading to 8.2.3, the slave produced the following message. I
> added a symbolic link to fix the problem but I rather not use the
> symbolic links and keep all the binaries in /usr/sbin
> 
> Feb  2 19:46:07 lombard named[279]: [ID 295310 daemon.error] can't exec
> /usr/local/sbin/named-xfer: No such file or directory.

Sure.  Just use the named-xfer options substatement:

options {
    named-xfer "/usr/sbin/named-xfer";
};

cricket



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