daemontools - djbdns
DAve
dave.list at pixelhammer.com
Wed Feb 15 06:03:16 PST 2006
Yance Kowara wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "RW" <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>; "Cristian Mijea"
> <cmijea at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 1:31 AM
> Subject: Re: daemontools - djbdns
>
>
>
>>On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:56, Cristian Mijea
>
> wrote:
>
>>>Ok. trying to follow Matt Simenson's DJBDNS on
>
> FreeBSD how-to from here:
>
> http://matt.simerson.net/computing/dns/djbdns-freebsd.shtml
>
>>>Now it writes that I must get the start up script
>
> from here:
>
> http://matt.simerson.net/computing/mail/toaster/services.txt
>
>>>All OK, just that the .txt file is missing. Can
>
> anyone please email it to
>
>>>me?
>>
>>That how-to is pretty-old, there is a local rc.d
>
> script now.
>
>>You just need turn it on in /etc/rc.conf
>>
>> svscan_enable=YES
>>
>>and optionally set svscan_servicedir if you don't
>
> want to use
>
>>/var/service.
>>
>>Some of the how-tos for DJBDNS use some really odd
>
> paths. It doesn't
>
>>really
>>matter where the service directory goes, since it
>
> should only contain
>
>>links,
>>but some people have the real dnscache directory
>
> under /etc which is a bad
>
>>place to put it under FreeBSD.
>>
>
>
> Hi RW,
> Why is it bad to put it under /etc ... is this
> specific for FreeBSD or any
> Unix OS?
>
> Where is the proper place?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Yance Kowara
Try Matt's new version of the HowTo, it is at
http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/dns/djbdns-freebsd.shtml
and the links work fine. He moved everything to his new domain some time
ago.
I've installed daemontools on lots of servers, many heavily loaded,
running FreeBSD / NetBSD / Solaris. I have always followed Dan's
suggested install paths and I have never had a single issue. I don't
even use the start script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I still edit
/etc/rc.local. Mainly because I have three OSs, and three versions of
FreeBSD, two of which handle startup differently (4.10 and 5.4).
While I agree it may be bad "form" to use Dan's paths. I do not believe
it is bad in general, as in harmful. So while Matt's HowTo may not be in
sync with current FreeBSD thinking it is a well documented, working
procedure. A new user will have a successful install following it.
DAve
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