From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 16 11:15:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu (srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu [130.126.76.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B5E637B9A4 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 11:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ftobin@uiuc.edu) Received: (qmail 26626 invoked by uid 1000); 16 May 2000 18:15:28 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 May 2000 18:15:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 13:15:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin X-Sender: ftobin@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: FreeBSD-security Mailing List Subject: Re: pid file for named In-Reply-To: <20000516091932.J20000@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alfred Perlstein, at 09:19 -0700 on Tue, 16 May 2000, wrote: > # cd /var/run > # mkdir named > # touch named/named.pid > # ln -s named/named.pid . > # chown named:named named > # rm named/named.pid Actually, named still complains about this, because I think it tries to actually unlink /var/run/named.pid; it doesn't seem to just want to overwrite it. -- Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/ "To learn what is good and what is to be valued, those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message