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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:41:48 -0800
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
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Subject: Re: named and stats dump
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:05:11AM -0600, Victor R. Cardona wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am using named on 4.2-RELEASE. It is running as an unprivledged user, 
> and cannot write to /etc/namedb.
> 
> I would like to log some things to file, and to get a stats dump, but 
> have been unable to. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can 
> work around this? I don't think setting /etc/namedb to bind.bind 
> ownership is a good idea.

Put empty files with the correct names, ownerships, and permissions in
the right place. No need to change the directory perms. One can also
specify paths for the stats file and other in the configuration file.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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