BIND Upgrade 8-9

Subject: MARC msg 'Re BIND Upgrade'
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:35:57 +0530

Hi all,
I am trying to follow up on an old thread.

My OS is RH 6.x, I have installed bind 9.2.4x
and have put links to some of the files and it seems to work well.

Can I delete the balance files in /usr/sbin
" named-xfer ndc irpd named-bootconf dnskeygen "
I have not made any links to them.

[root@dhamma /root]# ls -tral /usr/sbin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1956666 Aug 25 2002 named.8.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1280868 Aug 25 2002 named-xfer
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 185500 Aug 25 2002 ndc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1204864 Aug 25 2002 irpd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7627 Aug 25 2002 named-bootconf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 507263 Aug 25 2002 dnskeygen
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jun 8 12:46 named -> /usr/local/sbin/named

[root@dhamma /root]# ls -tral /usr/local/sbin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 2 2000 qmail -> /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3325448 May 21 14:31 named
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3325448 May 21 14:31 lwresd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 628860 May 21 14:31 rndc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 831708 May 21 14:31 rndc-confgen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 886435 May 21 14:31 dnssec-keygen
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2396511 May 21 14:31 dnssec-makekeyset
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2396716 May 21 14:31 dnssec-signkey
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2450008 May 21 14:31 dnssec-signzone
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 930130 May 21 14:31 named-checkconf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2382948 May 21 14:31 named-checkzone

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and in /usr/bin "addr mkservdb"
They also have no links to them.

The balance which are renamed old files
"nslookup.8.3.3 dig.8.3.3 dnsquery host.8.3.3 nsupdate.8.3.3"
can ofcause go.

[root@dhamma /root]# ls -tral /usr/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53773 Aug 25 2002 addr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1246325 Aug 25 2002 nslookup.8.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1223600 Aug 25 2002 dig.8.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1131816 Aug 25 2002 dnsquery
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1178164 Aug 25 2002 host.8.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1142367 Aug 25 2002 nsupdate.8.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 47835 Aug 25 2002 mkservdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 8 12:52 dig -> /usr/local/bin/dig
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jun 8 12:55 host -> /usr/local/bin/host
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jun 8 12:56 nslookup -> /usr/local/bin/nslookup
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jun 8 12:57 nsupdate -> /usr/local/bin/nsupdate

[root@dhamma /root]# ls -tral /usr/local/bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2517333 May 21 14:31 dig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2505271 May 21 14:31 host
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2509815 May 21 14:31 nslookup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2492015 May 21 14:31 nsupdate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2696 May 21 14:31 isc-config.sh

I found this on in the Archives, and I find Peter Håkanson's reply
below very nice, but I have a problem with what to do with the balance
files which has no similar names in Ver 9.2.

<Quote>
You have two options :
1/ overwrite the ones you have ( installed by redhat)

2/ place them somewhere else ( usr/local/[sbin|bin]
Both ways has advantages and disadvantages.

(1) , which i usually prefer, has the advantage that all startupscrips
will continue to work, disadvantage that any upograde might
overwrite the binaries. Keeping the compile-directory and
install script will be handy in that case.

(2) has the advantage that the old binaries is untouched, but
you have to edit startup scripts. Also in this case an upgrade
might screw your setup by overwriting your startup scripts.

Between a rock and a hard place you have to choose one.

</quote>

Thank you for any help
Mettavihari

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