From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Oct 19 12:30:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9812B37B4C5 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA35974; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:30:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:30:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: David Drum Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/22038: Default location of named.pid file assumes named is running as root In-Reply-To: <20001018223325.A83999@elvis.mu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, David Drum wrote: > Quoth Doug Barton: > > > This isn't a freebsd issue, it's a BIND issue. People who > > don't have a sufficient amount of knowledge about how BIND works to > > run it successfully as an unpriviliged user won't be helped by your > > suggestion. It will just be some other aspect of BIND configuration > > that trips them up. > > I suppose it can be argued that someone who is essentially ignorant about > BIND, at least enough not to know about the side effects on the PID file > of running "-u bind", will not be running "ndc reload" either. Years of experience on the bind-users list tells me that this assumption is invalid. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message