thank you - Re: bind9 (9.18.14) build / install on macOS Ventura (13.3.1) fails to create dirs or files as expected

[Greg Choules]

You are most welcome, I'm glad you got it running. Now the fun starts! :D

Greg

On Tue, 30 May 2023 at 21:02, Pacific <info at pacific-holding.com> wrote:

> Thank you and to everyone who took the time to respond. Your collective
> input did the trick and I now have bind running successfully through a brew
> install.
>
> I got pulled into another project and wanted to reply with thanks sooner.
> Your time is valuable and I sincerely appreciate everyone who took the time
> to make suggestions.
>
> On May 10, 2023, at 1:39 AM, Greg Choules <
> gregchoules+bindusers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> The named binary *could* exist in many places; it depends on the OS. For
> example, with a Homebrew install on my Mac it's here:
> /usr/local/Cellar/bind/9.18.14/sbin/named because of this build parameter:
> --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/bind/9.18.14
> It's linked to from /usr/local/opt/bind/sbin/named, for convenience.
>
> I don't recall whether you get an example "named.conf" Mine is here, by
> the way:
> /usr/local/etc/bind/named.conf because of this build parameter:
> --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/bind
>
> Again, search for a named.conf and if you don't have one, 'touch' it to
> create it then try running it. By default it doesn't need to contain
> anything, just exist. The built-in defaults are enough to get a server
> running.
> As you start to customise your config, keep an eye on the log, which will
> tell you whether named starts or not and if not, why. Then you can correct
> errors and try again.
>
> I don't think it should matter that artefacts from a previous install
> attempt are hanging around. But before you try installing it another way I
> would search for files called "named":
> sudo find / -name named
> and see if you have a binary. In my case:
> %file /usr/local/sbin/named
> /usr/local/sbin/named: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
>
> If you find an executable, do <path>/named -V (uppercase V), which will
> print a summary of how it was built.
> Similarly <path>/named -C (uppercase) will print the defaults.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Greg
>
>
> On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 05:55, Pacific <info at pacific-holding.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, thanks for the reply.
>>
>> For some reason I thought it did install or drop a base bones named.conf
>> file, however, it should have dropped the named binary into /usr/local  —
>> which it didn’t do. And none of the other “various BIND 9 libraries”.
>>
>> The bind docs at
>> https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/chapter10.html#build-bind
>>
>> in section 10.2 on building show this:
>>
>> make install installs named
>> <https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#std-iscman-named> and
>> the various BIND 9 libraries. By default, installation is into /usr/local,
>> but this can be changed with the --prefix option when running configure.
>>
>> The option --sysconfdir can be specified to set the directory where
>> configuration files such as named.conf
>> <https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/latest/manpages.html#std-iscman-named.conf> go
>> by default; --localstatedir can be used to set the default parent
>> directory ofrun/named.pid. --sysconfdir defaults to $prefix/etc and
>> --localstatedir defaults to $prefix/var.
>> If I’m missing something please let me know - or if you have any
>> suggestions, like just moving the named binary from my temp dir into
>> /usr/local I’d appreciate. Thanks.
>>
>> On May 9, 2023, at 5:08 PM, Anand Buddhdev <anandb at ripe.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/05/2023 22:23, Pacific wrote:
>>
>> Hi Pacific,
>>
>> Installing bind9 (9.18.14) on macOS Ventura (13.3.1) — install is
>> not  creating a namedb directory nor can I find a boilerplate named.conf.
>>
>>
>> As far as remember, the bind install procedure doesn't create a
>> named.conf.
>>
>> --
>> Anand
>>
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