From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 22:56:47 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 DD92B16A422 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:56:47 +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 7240243D46 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:56:47 +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 E766ED808D for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:56:45 -0600 (CST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <20060131220131.GB38470@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060131220131.GB38470@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <92a0fa936ee007b04b74bf349f19b21a@lanoticia.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alvaro_J._Gurdi=E1n?= Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:56:26 -0500 To: FreeBSD-Questions Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Subject: Re: 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 22:56:48 -0000 I used sysinstall to look for it: the chose configure->packages->ftp->main site->package selection->DNS in there I saw several versions of BIND but 9.3.1 was the newest. What am I doing wrong? I chose FTP to try to get the most up to date info....what happened? I see 9.3.2 on Fresh ports, why not thru sysinstall? On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:01 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 31), Alvaro J. Gurdin said: >> 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 > > The bind9 port has been at 9.3.2 since late December, actually (8 days > after the upstream release). > >> 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. > > Easier to just set named_program=/usr/local/sbin/named in rc.conf and > use the included rc.d/named startup script. I thought this was > documented in the port somewhere, but apparently not. The rc.d/named > script tells named to chroot itself into /var/named/, also. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >