BIND 9 is setup to be build and tested as a ordinary user. You only need to be root to configure the test interfaces and to do the final install.
On Linux named drops root's abilities to override file permissions so when you extract the tarball as root you get files/directories with non root ownerships which named cannot write to. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users