Questions about new Bind installation
Lisa Casey
lisa at jellico.net
Wed Sep 21 13:30:13 UTC 2005
Hi,
I recently set up a FreeBSD 5.3 box and installed Bind 8.4 from ports. The
named daemon is not starting up automatically when the box reboots and I
need it to do so. I added the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:
named_enable="YES"
named_program="/usr/sbin/named"
named_flags="-u bind -g bind -c /usr/local/etc/named.conf"
But named still won't start on reboot. I googled some and found this;
http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch5/
which talks about bind installations from ports on FreeBSD 5.3 being
"non-base" installs and bind installations on FreeBSD 5.3 from a downloaded
.tar.gz file being a "base" or normal install. The article goes on to say
that the difference is the base version is installed in /usr/sbin (and the
tools in /usr/bin) whereas a normal (non-base) installation is made to
/usr/local/sbin (and the tools to /usr/local/bin). Finally the standard
version assumes the named.conf file in /etc/namedb/named.conf whereas a
non-base install assumes /usr/local/etc/named.conf.
On my system, in /usr/local/sbin I have:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 718728 Sep 15 16:42 named
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7627 Sep 15 16:42 named-bootconf
This is the date I installed Bind so I assume these files are correct. In
/usr/sbin, however, I have these:
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1388360 Nov 4 2004 named
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1089112 Nov 4 2004 named-checkconf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1040412 Nov 4 2004 named-checkzone
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1743 Nov 4 2004 named.reconfig
-r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1743 Nov 4 2004 named.reload
My question is what are these????
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
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