[Gllug] BIND

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Tue Jul 8 12:40:37 UTC 2003


Grzegorz Jaskiewicz writes:

>> I noted that the standard 'make' places the binaries in /usr/local/sbin
>> - so I have copied them over to /usr/sbin where I believe the init script
>> will want them to be (since that's where the old named was).
>use ./configure --prefix=/usr to change that default behavior.

As I've argued elsewhere, it's not really desirable to do this. Don't
mix self compiled stuff with things your distribution supplies. Instead,
put it somewhere completely separate (I usr /local for this, for example).
You certainly shouldn't be touching /usr.

Tet

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