new user question about upgrading to 9.2.1

Brian O'Gorman Brian.O'Gorman at noaa.gov
Sat Jun 8 22:42:03 UTC 2002


But don't I have to change the startup files first, i.e. rc,
/etc/init.d/inetsvc?
My named.conf is OK by way of named-checkconf.

Torsten Mueller wrote:

> Brian O'Gorman schrieb:
> >
> > I am running on  a Sun Microsystems UNIX Solaris 2.8, and have the
> > following result from the in.named -v command
> >
> > in.named BIND 8.2.2-P5 Fri Dec 21 05:14:00 PST 2001
> >         Generic Patch-5.8-December 2001
> >
> > I have successfully gunzip and tar the bind-9.2.1.tar.gz
> >                              ./configure --prefix=PREFIX
> >                              make
> >                              make test
> >
> > I think I'm ready to to do the make install.
> >
> > Now my question is, to do the make install, should I worry or be
> > concerned about the BIND 8.2.2 running when I try to do it? Should I
> > kill -9  `cat /var/named/named.pid` before doing the make install?
>
> If you configured i.e. with --prefix=/usr/local/bind-9.2.1
> all your bind stuff is in /usr/local/bind-9.2.1
>
> You can make install !
>
> Before firing up your new bind, you should stop your old bind,
> as the new bind tries to bind to port 53 (which isn't possible if
> the old bind runs)
> Of course you should modify named.conf first, create the rndc stuff,
> etc ...
>
> Torsten


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