Search Again: Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Time: 10:54:21 am At 8:31 AM -0600 11/3/04, Alan Ordway wrote: >Do I really NEED any components other than named? No. >So basically I run ./configure, then make, then make install No, don't run 'make install'. It will install lots of stuff in random locations that are not appropriate for Mac OS X. ./configure make sudo mv bin/named/named /usr/sbin/named The new copy should be given the same privileges as the old one - this seems to be a feature of the 'mv' command. However, just to be sure, you can follow up with this one: sudo chmod 755 /usr/sbin/named Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer >and then I copy the named from /usr/local/sbin to /usr/sbin and >replace the named that is there. > >-- >Alan Ordway > >On Nov 2, 2004, at 6:55 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote: > >>If you set --prefix, you must also set a couple of other parameters >>so that the new named expects named.conf in /etc, and so that it >>puts run/named.pid in /var. There are a number of other parameters >>you could set, too (manpage location, info location, etc.). >> >>Alternatively, just './configure', and then manually install just >>the components you want. For example, bin/named/named goes to >>/usr/sbin/named. >> >>Just use the -4 option. That way, if Apple fixes this issue >>(assuming you're using Mac OS X), and if you should ever want IPv6 >>support, you won't have to recompile. >> >>Chris Buxton >>Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy >>Customer Service and Sales Engineer >> >>At 7:45 PM -0600 11/2/04, Alan Ordway wrote: >>>What is the best way to update Bind from 9.2.3 to 9.3.0? Should I >>>add a flag "--prefix=/usr" to the ./configure to have the install >>>replace the existing build or should I just do the ./configure and >>>then change the startup files to point to the >>>/usr/local/sbin/named? >>>Also should I build with IPv6 disabled or just put the -4 in the >>>params to fix the IPv6 problem with the root servers? >>> >>>Alan Ordway >>>IHMC

Messages In This Thread: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 2, 2004 at 5:47:39 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 2004 at 5:58:41 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 3, 2004 at 6:35:54 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 3, 2004 at 10:54:21 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 4, 2004 at 8:18:32 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 10:24:20 am Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 4, 2004 at 12:18:04 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 1:27:49 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Alan Ordway on Nov 4, 2004 at 2:18:46 pm Re: Installing Bind 9.3.0 by Men & Mice Support on Nov 4, 2004 at 2:44:00 pm