Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:44:53 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@rdy.com (Dima Ruban) To: Feisal Mohammed <Feisal.O.Mohammed@uwi.tt> Cc: FreeBSD-security Mailing List <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pid file for named Message-ID: <200005161844.LAA71684@sivka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <39219248.7628FC0A@uwi.tt> from Feisal Mohammed at "May 16, 2000 02:24:09 pm"
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Feisal Mohammed writes:
> Dima Ruban wrote:
> >
> > Frank Tobin writes:
> > > 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
> > >
> > > chmod -R bind:bind /etc/named
> > >
> > > However, the pid file, /var/run/named.pid, which named tries to write out
> >
> > You can set it in named.conf:
> >
> > options {
> > ...
> > pid-file "/etc/namedb/run/named.pid";
> > ...
> > };
> >
> > However, this will break "ncd", since it's looking for /var/run/named.pid
> > instead of extracting current "pid-file" value from the named.conf.
> >
> > -- dima
> >
>
> That can be fixed as follows, I have two named running
> one on the inside interface and the other on the outside
> interface.
It doesn't do much good, since you still have to type:
ndc -c /var/run/ndc-inside whatever_command_you_want
What I've meant is that ndc should have a simple parsing capabilities
to extract most of the information it needs from named.conf
>
> -Feisal
>
-- dima
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