Compiling BIND9 on CentOS 7

[Sean Son]

Reindl

Thank you for your response.  Let me see if what you provided will work
with what I am trying to do.


Thanks again!



On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
wrote:

>
>
> Am 25.04.2016 um 19:23 schrieb Sean Son:
>
>> Thank you for your reply.
>>
>> The issue is, I do not know what other services/targets will need to be
>> started prior to BIND starting. In other words, I have no idea how to
>> set up the unit file for BIND.
>>
>
> none - just none
>
> and even if - how would a blind script at startup solve that question - if
> it don't (and it really don't) what's your exactly problem?
> _______________________________________________
>
> [Unit]
> Description=DNS Server
>
> [Service]
> Type=simple
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named -f -u named
> ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
> ExecStop=/usr/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID
> Restart=always
> RestartSec=1
>
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> _______________________________________________
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net
>> <mailto:anandb at ripe.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 25/04/16 17:59, Sean Son wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Sean Son,
>>
>>     > I know I emailed the list about compiling BIND on a SystemD distro
>> earlier
>>     > last month. This time I have a different question. After I compile
>> BIND9 on
>>     > CentOS 7 , how do I get it to start up at boot time and how do I
>> restart
>>     > it? I don't want to have to write a systemd unit configuration file
>> for it.
>>     > I want it to run using a boot script or some other way that will
>> allow BIND
>>     > to start up at boot and also allow the system administrator to
>> restart BIND
>>     > if it ever stops running.
>>
>>     A systemd unit file is the *easiest* and *simplest* way to get BIND to
>>     start at boot. Is there any reason you don't want to use systemd? It's
>>     not difficult at all. You just a few lines in a file to create a
>> system
>>     unit.
>>
>>     If you don't want systemd to restart BIND if it crashes, then you can
>>     just set:
>>
>>     Restart=no
>>
>>     Then, you can start BIND by hand with "systemctl start <unitname>"
>>
>
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