From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 14:03:16 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 0404916A420 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:03:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from ecluster6.tls.net (ecluster6.tls.net [65.196.224.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D9D643D46 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:03:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 29641 invoked by uid 89); 15 Feb 2006 14:03:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.101?) (ldg%tls.net@204.8.12.135) by auth-ecluster6.tls.net with SMTP; 15 Feb 2006 14:03:14 -0000 Message-ID: <43F33498.7020608@pixelhammer.com> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:03:04 -0500 From: DAve User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060215132551.68040.qmail@web30315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060215132551.68040.qmail@web30315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: daemontools - djbdns 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: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:03:16 -0000 Yance Kowara wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "RW" > To: ; "Cristian Mijea" > > Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:31 AM > Subject: Re: daemontools - djbdns > > > >>On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:56, Cristian Mijea > > wrote: > >>>Ok. trying to follow Matt Simenson's DJBDNS on > > FreeBSD how-to from here: > > http://matt.simerson.net/computing/dns/djbdns-freebsd.shtml > >>>Now it writes that I must get the start up script > > from here: > > http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/toaster/services.txt > >>>All OK, just that the .txt file is missing. Can > > anyone please email it to > >>>me? >> >>That how-to is pretty-old, there is a local rc.d > > script now. > >>You just need turn it on in /etc/rc.conf >> >> svscan_enable=YES >> >>and optionally set svscan_servicedir if you don't > > want to use > >>/var/service. >> >>Some of the how-tos for DJBDNS use some really odd > > paths. It doesn't > >>really >>matter where the service directory goes, since it > > should only contain > >>links, >>but some people have the real dnscache directory > > under /etc which is a bad > >>place to put it under FreeBSD. >> > > > Hi RW, > Why is it bad to put it under /etc ... is this > specific for FreeBSD or any > Unix OS? > > Where is the proper place? > > Kind regards, > > Yance Kowara Try Matt's new version of the HowTo, it is at http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/dns/djbdns-freebsd.shtml and the links work fine. He moved everything to his new domain some time ago. I've installed daemontools on lots of servers, many heavily loaded, running FreeBSD / NetBSD / Solaris. I have always followed Dan's suggested install paths and I have never had a single issue. I don't even use the start script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I still edit /etc/rc.local. Mainly because I have three OSs, and three versions of FreeBSD, two of which handle startup differently (4.10 and 5.4). While I agree it may be bad "form" to use Dan's paths. I do not believe it is bad in general, as in harmful. So while Matt's HowTo may not be in sync with current FreeBSD thinking it is a well documented, working procedure. A new user will have a successful install following it. DAve