installing 9.6 on freebsd7 configure problems

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, aklist wrote:

> Hi: I'm trying to install BIND 9.6.0 from source but am having problems with
> the configure statement. I tried:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb --mandir=/usr/share/man \
>   --localstatedir=/var --disable-threads --with-openssl=/usr
> 
> followed by "make && make install"
> 
> and 9.6 was installed, but when I try to start it I receive an error
> 
> Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: starting BIND 9.6.0 -t /var/named -u bind
> Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: built with '--with-openssl'


Make sure you are running the correct named binary. (Notice your "built 
with" is incomplete.)


> Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: file not found
> Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: loading configuration: file not found
> Jan  2 15:57:48 ns1 named[1096]: exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> shouldn't the "open" statement be pointing at "/etc/namedb/named.conf" and if
> so, what did I do wrong? Or do I have to manually edit a path somewhere?



  Jeremy C. Reed
  ISC Sales & Support Engineer