Informational warning re RH6.2beta and Rawhide

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200003161357.HAA01617 at kesrith.neandertal.org>,
Henri J. Schlereth <henris at neandertal.org> wrote:
>Somewhere around the RPM of 8.2.2.P5-6 to 8.2.2P5-9 on both the
>Rawhide and 6.2Beta site RedHat has begun running Bind as user
>named. 
>
>ndc stats and dumpdb now no longer work. The message in
>syslog says, ndc unable to open named.stats file and
>the ndc dumpdb command pretends like it works but creates
>no file(s).
> 
>If you have 8.2.2P5-1 stick with that for now. The dash number
>only means the nth compile of the 8.2.2.P5 version. A bugzilla
>report will be submitted by me (to RH).

These files are written to the directory in the "directory" option in
named.conf.  Make sure that directory is writable by the user named.

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