Newbie: Install 9/Remove 8 on FreeBSD

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Sep 29 00:47:26 UTC 2001


/etc/rc.conf:
named_enable="YES"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags=""

> 
> Jamie Anderson <JamieA at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to upgrade to BIND 9.1.3.
> 
> > How do I correctly remove the BIND 8.2.3 that comes installed with FreeBSD
> > 4.3 and install 9.1.3 using ports?
> 
> > I've tried several times using the ports collection and 9 seems to install,
> > but 8 is still installed and running.
> 
> It could be that bind-9 is installed in /usr/local/sbin and the startup
> scripts would start bind-8 in it's old location /usr/sbin/named
> 
> In fact, if i was to install bind-9 i would :
> 1/ compile tarball from isc 
> 2/ manually move the resulting files to overwrite whereever my 
>    vendor have choosen to place their version of bind.
> 3/ do (2) with a script, keep the script and sources in a place 
>    where vendor updates don't interfere, and use if any vendor 
>    update or support person comes closer then 4 feets.
> 
> 
> 
> > James
> > -- 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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