upgrade bind8.x to bind9.x in RH6.2

Steve Friedl steve at unixwiz.net
Thu Oct 7 14:41:29 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 07:29:58AM -0700, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> Hai,
>   Due to some reasons, still I am using RH6.2 where
> bind8.2 is running. Now I need to upgrade to bind 9.x 
> and got the following error when I start named after
> upgradation 
> 
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start
> 
> Starting named: named: -u not supported on Linux
> kernels older than 2.3.99-pre3 or 2.2.18 when using
> threads
>                                                       
>     [FAILED]
> 
> If I haven't specified '-u named' option in named
> script, then it will try to start bind as root user.
> 
> Is there any way I can run bind using 'named' user?

Rebuild BIND and add --disable-threads to the ./configure args

Steve

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