Hello, On Apr 8, 2013, at 16:51 , Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> Question is - how do I pass the config file as a parameter to the recursor in > the above startup script (-c? -f) ? Maybe that is one of the problems I need > to address. My assumption has been that I don't need to specify it anyway, > since the path is built-in during compile. Specifying during compile is broken - our apologies for that. At run time, you can specify --config-dir to point to a specific dir. The config must be called recursor.conf inside that dir. Can you try --config-dir and let me know whether that solves your issue for now? > Correct me if I am wrong but it would appear that recursor ignores the > CONFIGDIR directive when compiling. I have just checked this now by appending > "...." and starting it using the init script in the source and it failed to > start with: > > > [root@jaribu] ~wash/Tools/PDNS/pdns-recursor-3.5-rc5# ./pdns-recursor.init.d > start > Starting PowerDNS recursing nameserver: Apr 08 17:48:30 Exception: Trying to > set unexisting parameter '....' > > According to me, it should not be looking for this file in /etc/powerdns/, > but rather the one in /usr/local/etc/pdns. Yes, this is a bug. I will write a ticket about it. Kind regards, -- Peter van Dijk Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/ _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
