I am running slackware 8.0 and am trying to install bind 9.2. It is the enviroment i work in so i have no choice. This is a test dns server. I have done a full install of slackware 8.0 and am now trying to install bind. I have downloaded and unzipped the bind file. The setup instructions i am following are at this link http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/...rver/bind.html everything has installed fine until i got to the "Create the Bind boot script" part of the install. The first command is cat > etc/rc.d/init.d/bind << "EOF". When I try to create the script this error comes up "No such file or directory". After looking inside of the etc/rd.d folder i noticed there are scripts but no init.d folder, so it can not write to it. I have done hours of research and have not been able to find an answer to this issue.
Please Help
Thanks

As a rule slackware tends not to use the SysVinit system (though later versions do support it). If your box has a /etc/rc.d/rc.bind then perhaps you can look at customising that to work with the version you're installing.

there is no rc.bind file either. That also makes me wonder if the install i followed is correct. I have a live DNS server that does not have these files or folders on them either.

This is bind init script from -current Slackware64. You just have to edit path to executables if bind is installed under different location.

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rc.bind.txt (3.0 KB, 21 views)

how can i tell where bind was installed. It should be the defaults but i cannot find it

Is that all i have to do is put this file into the etc/rc.d folder and restart the computer to run bind?

What about the run level symlinks do i still need to create those or am I going about this the wrong way?

Create the BIND boot script:

cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind << "EOF"
#!/bin/bash
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/bind
# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $rc_functions
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting named..."
loadproc /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /home/named -c \
/etc/named.conf
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping named..."
killproc /usr/sbin/named
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
reload)
echo "Reloading named..."
/usr/sbin/rndc -c /etc/rndc.conf reload
;;

status)
statusproc /usr/sbin/named
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
;;
esac
# End $rc_base/init.d/bind
EOF


Add the run level symlinks:

chmod 754 /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind &&
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K49bind &&
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K49bind &&
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K49bind &&
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S22bind &&
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S22bind &&
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S22bind &&
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/bind /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K49bind

No you don't need the symlinks, they're a part of the sysvinit system which Slackware doesn't use.

If /etc/rc.d/rc.bind is executable then Slackware should run it on startup.

I think the safest way to proceed is to take the bind 9.4.3 sources plus SlackBuild script that was released for Slackware 8.1 last june, and see if you can use the bind.SlackBuild to compile a Slackware package on your 8.0 machine. If you use upgradepkg you'll end up with a properly integrated and modern/safe version of bind for Slackware.

See http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...s/source/bind/ for the sources plus SlackBuild script.

Eric

do i need to download all of the files on that ftp site for this? My live DNS server is bind 9.2. I am trying to learn how to administer it. Noone has been here to admin it for 4 years according to what i am told. Since I am not as proficent in linux as i would like to be. I am building this test server to learn how to admin the bind 9.2. If i install the 9.4 will that still teach me what i need to admin this live dns server?
Thanks

And where are the install instructions? hopefully for slackware

FYI, I learned how to administer bind reading this book, it's very well written.

dns management is nearly impossible to learn simply looking at config files, you need some background.

I have many years background in dns management with microsoft servers. I am struggling with the install process and how to operate bind. I have not messed with linux a wholed lot. I am mostly use to microsoft but i have been administering microsoft dns servers for many years.

probably won't help you much with bind as they are the most non-standard dns servers out there (worked -and still working- at the same time also with them).

if you need help for building the package from the sources/slackbuild Eric pointed you to, you can have a look at the slackwiki.

This tells me how to write an installation script or upgrade script. I am not sure what files are what from the 9.4 that i was pointed to. So I do not know how to write the script. Is there not a simple install directions somewhere to to install 9.4.3 to slackware 8?
Thanks,

Jim