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Date:      Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:02:52 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        stan <stanb@awod.com>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9
Message-ID:  <20030124030047.V12770-100000@voo.doo.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030124015449.GA68828@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, at 14:54 [=GMT+1300], Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:29:22PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled
> > bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change
> > the init files et all to use the ports bind9.
> >
> > What I _don't_ see (and I'm certain it's just my lack of knowledge here),
> > is a clean way to remove all teh traces of the existing bersion of bind
> > which was built the last time I did a make world.
> >
> > Could someone enlighten me?
>
> You don't remove the bundle BIND. All you do is add the following
> lines into your /etc/rc.conf to run the port-installed Bind9.
>
>     named_enable="YES"      # Run named, the DNS server (or NO).
>     named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"

But would this also make the system use the dig that comes with bind9,
which is put in /usr/local/bin by the port?

Would it not be easiest to tell the port to install in /usr and not in
/usr/local?


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