Re: Installing dnscache with runit, without other djb utils

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Charlie Brady <charlieb-supervision@budge.apana.org.au> writes:

> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>
>> I'd like to install djb's dnscache to run under my existing runit-based
>> system.  In order to do so, it seems to require me to install a number
>> of other djb utilities which have the same name as some of the
>> runit-based symlinks: setuidgid, pgrphack, etc.
>>
>> This will cause a conflict or worse (overwriting?) with the
>> corresponding runit-based symlinks, and I want to avoid this.
>
> What makes you think that you need to install the djb utilities? What
> happens if you just use the runit-based symlinks?

Thank you.

Those runit symlinks work just fine at run time.  That's not where my
problem lies.

Rather, I'm talking about the initial installation of djbdns.  According
to djb's docs, I have to first install his daemontools and ucspi-tcp
packages in order to get the djbdns stuff installed, and I don't want to
do either of those installations.

I tried to do install djbdns a while ago with only the runit utils in
place, and it failed (sadly, I don't have the error log any more).

But now, after having typed the preceding part of this reply, I decided
to try installing djbdns a second time, just in case (again, without any
other djb utils in place ... only runit).  And this time, it worked.

Therefore, I must have done something wrong with that earlier install,
which means that my question here is moot.

Thanks to you and also to Vincent Danet and Wayne Marshall for your kind
help.


>> Does anyone know how to install dnscache to run under runit _without_
>> having djb's utilities mess up my runit-based symlinks?
>
> You shouldn't need setuidgid or pgrphack to run dnscache.
>

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 Lloyd Zusman
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 God bless you.