8.2.2 -> 8.2.3 upgrade gotcha's ??

[James Raftery]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:21:35PM +0000, paulz at xs4all.nl wrote:
> Is there a list of problems to be expected when upgrading from 8.2.2 to
> 8.2.3 ??

Hi,

Kevin O'Neil posted an excellent summary of what he'd found. You're
looking for this message:

Message-ID: <E5431CF93E29F9478878F623E5B9CE982C0F8B at OA3-SERVER.oa.oclc.org>
Subject: Migrating to 8.2.3-REL (log message changes; gotchas; etc.)
From: "O'Neil,Kevin" <oneil at oclc.org>

> b the definition of NEED_SECURE_DIRECTORY for solaris which
>   caused named to change the perms on the directory containing the
>   ndc socket in stead of the socket itself ( BTW why ??? )

Solaris doesn't honour the permission bits on the file itself. So, no
matter what modes the socket had any local user could send commands to
the nameserver.

james
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