[lug] bind 9.1.0

[Robert Payne]

Have you tried building it with the --disable-threads option?  That'll create
a non-threaded version and should allow -u to be used.  I don't really know
if it will work, I'm running it on a 2.4.1 kernel, but so says the docs.

FWIW,
Bob

charles at lunarmedia.net wrote:

> i just recently put bind 9.1 on a staging server. it appears to be running
> well on existing bind 8.x named.conf and zone files, however I am not able
> to run it as a user other than root. when attempting to use the -u flag, i
> receive an error stating that the option is invalid on kernels prior to
> 2.3.99 when "running threads".
> i'm not too familiar with what this is referring to, but since i would
> prefer to not run named as root, i'd like to find out more about it.
>
> has anyone gone through this upgrade yet?
>
> thanks -cjm
>
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