Re: bin/41252: named pid file has moved

["Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/41252; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost>
To: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
Cc: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>,
        NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: bin/41252: named pid file has moved
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:09:28 -0400

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 At Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:59:51 -0400, christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos 
Zoulas) w=
 rote:
 Subject: re: bin/41252: named pid file has moved
 >=20
 > On Apr 21,  2:33am, mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost (matthew green) wrote:
 > -- Subject: re: bin/41252: named pid file has moved
 >=20
 > |   =20
 > |            * Change the built-in default back to /var/run/named.pid.
 > |=20
 > |=20
 > | yes please.
 > |=20
 > |=20
 > | .mrg.
 >=20
 > The reason they changed this is:
 >=20
 > 2486.   [func]          The default locations for named.pid and lwresd.pid
 >                         are now /var/run/named/named.pid and
 >                         /var/run/lwresd/lwresd.pid respectively.
 >=20
 >                         This allows the owner of the containing directory
 >                         to be set, for "named -u" support, and allows the=
 re
 >                         to be a permanent symbolic link in the path, for
 >                         "named -t" support.  [RT #18306]
 
 Note that on NetBSD the PID files should _never_ be writable by anyone
 other than root.  The /etc/rc.d infrastructure trusts their content.
 
 Named should be fixed (once again) to create its PID file before
 changing its runtime user-ID and/or doing chroot.
 
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                                                Greg A. Woods
                                                Planix, Inc.
 
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