On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Bill Cole wrote: > At 12:07 PM -0500 6/2/03, Joe Laffey imposed structure on a stream > of electrons, yielding: > >On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Bill Cole wrote: > > > > > >Running something you don't trust as root is crazy! That is an odd > >suggestion, given your technical accumen... > > I trust it absolutely on my machine. I recommend against anyone > running that code anywhere else without vetting it and adapting it to > their own situation. > > The need to run as root is to fiddle with the zone file and cycle the > nameserver.
Sorry, my point was that the user probably ought to test it out as a non-root user first, if it may accidentally delete files, etc. I understand that you cannot -HUP named without root. (I dunno if you can when running it chroot and as a non-root user, which I would HIGHLY recommend...) -- Joe Laffey | Want to convert subnet masks between different LAFFEY Computer Imaging | notations, or figure the number of IPs in a block? St. Louis, MO | Whatmask-It's FREE - www.laffeycomputer.com/wm.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
