Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:01:05 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: "James Greenfield" <james@pagearts.co.za>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pointing ndc at a different configuration file? Message-ID: <01032914010500.05457@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <01e601c0b87f$e4700d80$4501a8c0@boubou> References: <01e601c0b87f$e4700d80$4501a8c0@boubou>
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On Thursday 29 March 2001 09:41, James Greenfield wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE, and up until now I've been running bind
> 8.2.3-T6B. I've just installed 8.2.3-REL (not having realised up until
> recently that T6B is a beta release, and the security advisory for released
> in Jan preceded my setting up of the box).
>
> The system install (T6B) of named is in /usr/sbin/, while the ports install
> (REL) is in /usr/local/sbin. It took a little while but I finally figured
> out I need to run /usr/local/sbin/ndc instead of ndc (/usr/sbin/ndc is
> found first in the path, what's the best way to change this? I don't want
> to change the order of PATH)
>
> My question is this: the system bind installation looks for named.conf in
> /etc/namedb. The ports installation looks for /etc/named.conf. What's the
> 'right' way of changing this? Create a softlink from /etc/named.conf to
> /etc/namedb/named.conf (like /etc/aliases)?
>
> Sorry if this is obvious :)
>
> James Greenfield
make PREFIX=/usr PIDDIR=/var/run DESTETC=/etc/namedb DESTEXEC=/usr/libexec
DESTRUN=/var/run DESTBIN=/usr/sbin DESTHELP=/usr/share/misc install
This will replace the freebsd dist. version.
Good luck,
Beech
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