[Samba] How to switch from internal DNS to Bind

[James]

On 12/31/2015 10:27 AM, Rowland penny wrote:
> On 31/12/15 14:55, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 31.12.2015 um 15:43 schrieb James:
>>> On 12/30/2015 4:14 PM, Rowland penny wrote:
>>>> ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
>>>> --infodir=/usr/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc/bind --localstatedir=/var
>>>> --enable-threads --enable-largefile --with-libtool --enable-shared
>>>> --enable-static --with-openssl=/usr --with-gssapi=/usr
>>>> --with-dlopen=yes --with-gnu-ld --enable-ipv6
>>>> CFLAGS='-fno-strict-aliasing -DDIG_SIGCHASE -O2'
>>>> LDFLAGS='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'
>>>> CPPFLAGS='-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
>>> I seem to have a few errors in my syslog.
>>>
>>> Dec 31 09:35:17 VMDC1 named[24025]: couldn't mkdir '/var/run/named':
>>> Permission denied
>>> I compiled using 9.9.8-P2 and your suggested configure options. I see
>>> /run is owned by root:root. Should I give group 'named' permission to
>>> this folder? It's not documented in the wiki as needed
>>
>> nobody but root has a business directly on /run
>> you should create the subfolder as any bind-package does
>
> I totally agree
>
>>
>> on modern systems /run is a tmpfs and hence empty at boot
>> so it's "tmpfiles" job to re-create them at boot
>
> Ah, but the OP is using Ubuntu 12.04 and I don't think that it uses 
> the 'tmpfile' /run, I am sure it used the 'fixed' /var/run instead.
>
>>
>>
>> that config is typically part of the bind package
>
> Yes, that is where I got it from, it puts everything where the distro 
> package did, you can then use the distro's init script etc. If he was 
> to move to a later distro, then he wouldn't have to compile Bind9 :-)
>
>>
>> [root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/named.conf
>> d /run/named 0755 named named -
>>
>
> I have checked and all I did after compiling bind9 was to provision 
> samba4, setup bind with samba and then started bind and samba.
>
> Rowland
>
>
I'm going to update my distro and see what happens. As a FYI Ubuntu 
12.04 seems to treat /var/run as a sysmlink.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 31 10:06 /var/run -> /run

-- 
-James