Proper way to run bind9

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> > Is there a good reason for not changing that to /var/run/named/pid as
> > the default on FreeBSD, instead of adjusting the location in both
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf and named.conf?
> A couple of them actually. We do not want to edit the files as they
> come from the vendor without a really good reason, and this isn't one.

we could change the pid file name to /var/run/named/named.pid without
changing sources - we'd just need to define NS_LOCALSTATEDIR to
/var/run/named in CFLAGS.

DES
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