From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 21:45:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A52EC16A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:45:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from AJGurdian@lanoticia.com) Received: from xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com (xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com [64.41.126.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD8043D45 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:45:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from AJGurdian@lanoticia.com) Received: from [192.168.1.127] (rrcs-70-60-124-199.midsouth.biz.rr.com [70.60.124.199]) by xbox00.csee.siteprotect.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD04D808A for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:45:17 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alvaro_J._Gurdi=E1n?= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:45:14 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Subject: Proper FreeBSD installation practices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:45:19 -0000 I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a computer I want to use to test BIND. The newest release is 9.3.2, but the one installed with FreeBSD 6.0 is 9.3.1. Since according to the ISC's website there are a few bugs in 9.3.1, I decided to upgrade. I then looked over the ports and found versions going up to 9.3.1. So I downloaded the neccessary files from ISC's ftp. But I started wondering, where would the most appropriate place to install BIND be? My current version is installed in /usr/sbin/named, but the default install goes to /usr/local/sbin/named. Should I let the install go to it's default location, rename /usr/sbin/named to /usr/sbin/named9.3.1 and then symlink /usr/local/sbin/named to /usr/sbin/named? Or, should I tell the proper install flag to install named in /usr/sbin, and overwrite the previous version?( after all, I am not going to use it ) I am planning to put BIND in a sandbox anyway......I ask this mainly to find out about common practices. Thanks