DESTETC & DESTRUN

[Barry Margolin]

In article <919F9F0E43E8D111AFA40000F879E2F0A4D690 at mailsrv.szerencsejatek.hu>,
Takács István  <istvan.takacs at szerencsejatek.hu> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>If I install the BIND8p5 on a Solaris 6, then

Solaris 6?  Solaris version numbers jumped from 2.6 to 7, there was no 6.

>the default DESTETC and DESTRUN variables in the
>Makefile.set points to the /usr/local/etc directory, 
>which doesn't exists on Solaris.
>
>If I compile, then it creates an /usr/local/etc file(!), and
>copies the /etc/named.conf into it.
>Is this normal? 
>Or may I have to change the variables to /etc?

Create the directory /usr/local/etc, and make it executable only by root.
This is necessary to prevent unprivileged users from running "ndc", because
Solaris doesn't implement socket permissions.

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