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-rwxr-xr-xsource/n/bind/bind.SlackBuild6
-rw-r--r--source/n/bind/rc.bind15
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/source/n/bind/bind.SlackBuild b/source/n/bind/bind.SlackBuild
index e5610083..865a3d70 100755
--- a/source/n/bind/bind.SlackBuild
+++ b/source/n/bind/bind.SlackBuild
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
PKGNAM=bind
-VERSION=${VERSION:-9.14.10}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-$(echo ${PKGNAM}-[0-9]*.tar.?z | rev | cut -f 3- -d . | cut -f 1 -d - | rev)}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ fi
cd $TMP
rm -rf ${PKGNAM}-${VERSION}
-tar xvf $CWD/${PKGNAM}-$VERSION.tar.gz || exit 1
+tar xvf $CWD/${PKGNAM}-$VERSION.tar.?z || exit 1
cd ${PKGNAM}-$VERSION || exit 1
# Make sure ownerships and permissions are sane:
diff --git a/source/n/bind/rc.bind b/source/n/bind/rc.bind
index d58dc1e3..91ff8ce1 100644
--- a/source/n/bind/rc.bind
+++ b/source/n/bind/rc.bind
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Start/stop/restart the BIND name server daemon (named).
-# Start bind. In the past it was more secure to run BIND as a non-root
+# Start BIND. In the past it was more secure to run BIND as a non-root
# user (for example, with '-u daemon'), but the modern version of BIND
# knows how to use the kernel's capability mechanism to drop all root
# privileges except the ability to bind() to a privileged port and set
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
# can be set like this in /etc/default/named:
# NAMED_OPTIONS="-u daemon"
# So you will not have to edit this script.
+#
+# Please note that if you run BIND as a non-root user, your files in
+# /var/named may need to be chowned to this user or else named will
+# refuse to start.
# You might also consider running BIND in a "chroot jail",
# a discussion of which may be found in
@@ -53,14 +57,15 @@ find_bind_user() {
# running or you'll get more than one copy running.
bind_start() {
# If we are running as a non-root user, we'll need to be sure that
- # /var/run/named exists, and /var/run/named and /var/named are
- # chowned properly to that user:
+ # /var/run/named exists, and /var/run/named is chowned properly to
+ # that user. Your files in /var/named may need to be chowned as
+ # well, but that will be up to the sysadmin to do.
BIND_USER="$(find_bind_user)"
if [ ! "$BIND_USER" = "root" ]; then
mkdir -p /var/run/named
- chown -R $BIND_USER /var/run/named /var/named
+ chown -R $BIND_USER /var/run/named
else # prevent error if switching back to running as root:
- chown -R root /var/run/named /var/named
+ chown -R root /var/run/named
fi
if [ -x /usr/sbin/named ]; then
echo "Starting BIND: /usr/sbin/named $NAMED_OPTIONS"