Hello,

On Apr 10, 2012, at 17:08 , a b wrote:
> We broke through to daylight with the PowerDNS recursor server up and running 
> (names redacted to protect the guilty):
> 
> As you can see, this is on SunOS 5.10 (Solaris 10) i86pc platform.
> 
> The recursor is now fully integrated into the Solaris Service Management 
> Facility (SMF), and is under SMF control:

This is great news!

>> svcs -xv powerdns:recursor
> svc:/site/powerdns:recursor (PowerDNS recursive name server)
>  State: online since Tue Apr 10 08:23:13 2012
>    See: man -M /opt/acme/share/man -s 1M pdns_recursor
>    See: /var/svc/log/site-powerdns:recursor.log
> Impact: None.
> 
> Manual pages have been modified by hand to refer to section 1M instead of 8, 
> to comply with System V Release 4.0 convention. Would it be possible to 
> refactor the Makefile to do this automatically in a future release?

We would be happy to, but I'm not sure how to proceed here; do you have any 
suggestions?

> Unfortunately, this required patching "config.h" with gpatch(1), as it is not 
> configurable in the current state (Makefile does not currently modify 
> "config.h" based on the value of SYSCONFDIR).

Could you elaborate on this?

> rec_control(1M) has been moved to /opt/acme/sbin, since we felt this command 
> will not be run by regular users, and in our view, is a command which would 
> normally be used by the system administrator, rather than a regular user.

This makes sense. We will consider it :)

> Without the Google search and that e-mail, this project would have gotten 
> nowhere really fast. Based on our experience so far with building PowerDNS on 
> Solaris, we would like to ask that the special steps to build the 
> pdns_recursor on Solaris be included in the official documentation.

Good point, we will fix this.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/

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