[Samba] How to switch from internal DNS to Bind

[Rowland penny]

On 31/12/15 15:31, James wrote:
> 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
>

I am certain it didn't use to be like that, but if you upgrade to 14.04, 
you will not need to compile bind.

Rowland