Re: End of bind-chroot-admin script

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:43:00PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 13:09 +0100, Adam Tkac wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > bind-chroot-admin script should sync BIND configuration files to
> > chroot() directory. It was written with good intention but it has
> > never worked correctly in all situations. There is long history with
> > many broken configurations and urgent severity bugs.
> > 
> > I'm going to remove this script from Fedora 11 (it is part of Fedora/RHEL
> > only, no other distro uses it). After removal, "standard" chroot
> > structure will be created when you install bind-chroot package. It
> > will contain all needed files for running named in chroot but admin
> > shall move needed configuration files to chroot manually. Do you have
> > any comments?
> 
> So, after this, the master configuration files will no longer live
> in /etc but in /var/named/chroot/etc?  Will the /etc/ files be removed?
> What will prevent the frustrated admin from editing the wrong file?

Master configuration will be in /etc and /var/named by default like
now. Only one difference is when you want to use chroot you have to move
configuration files to chroot manually.

> 
> As part of my efforts on Samba4, I've been trying to make it easier for
> administrators to include the pre-generated zone file, and the rules for
> GSS-TSIG updates (required by windows clients).  I hope this will not
> make it harder to have fairly generic instructions (insert this snippit
> into /etc/named.conf) for my users. 
> 
> Andrew Bartlett

Adam

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