From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 16 5:22:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from newmail.sentex.ca (newmail.sentex.ca [207.245.238.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D9937B700 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 05:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by newmail.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA00850; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:22:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA25657; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000516081548.034444a8@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 08:18:59 -0400 To: Frank Tobin , FreeBSD-security Mailing List From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: pid file for named In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:48 AM 5/16/2000 -0500, Frank Tobin wrote: >One often wishes to run daemons such as named under other users, e.g., >bind:bind. In order to allow bind to write out zones and associated fun >stuff correctly, one then does a Actually, just make a subdirectory (eg /etc/namedb/s) and chown it. And in your options section of named.conf something like, directory "/etc/namedb"; pid-file "/etc/namedb/s/named.pid"; dump-file "s/named_dump.db"; ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message