Comments on: Tinydns / DJBDNS on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

By: Eduardo Romero

Eduardo Romero — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:06:33 +0000

I had troubles with this, it wouldn’t start with the error:

Starting djbdns: svc: warning: unable to control /var/lib/svscan/tinydns: file does not exist
svc: warning: unable to control /var/lib/svscan/tinydns/log: file does not exist
tinydns .

I had to edit /usr/bin/svscanboot change the path there from /etc/service to /service, killed svscanboot and it respawned just fine.

/etc/init.d/djbdns start worked after that.

By: joel

joel — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:43:02 +0000

I just added “csh -cf ‘/command/svscanboot &’” to /etc/rc.local

Seriously a pain in the ass to install in ubuntu…

By: Ubuntu and djbdns — Somewhere out there!

Ubuntu and djbdns — Somewhere out there! — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:30:26 +0000

[...] Tinydns / DJBDNS on Ubuntu Hardy Heron [...]

By: Lily

Lily — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:46:02 +0000

Interesting. My ucspi-tcp also failed to install, on an Ubuntu server, for the same reason. I didnt realize it until I tried to use tcprules.

I did; sudo ln -s /usr/local/man /usr/man ; sudo mkdir /usr/man/man5

It installed fine then.

Lily

By: Lily

Lily — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:23:40 +0000

At the end of installing daemontools, after linking /etc/inittab, need to also do: sudo initctl start svscan

svscan wont start until you do this (unless you reboot), making the installations of dnscache and tinydns fail to start.

Otherwise, perfect! Thanks, Lily

By: somebody

somebody — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:57:06 +0000

Didn’t work for me.

Do you want to install ucspi-tcp_0.88-10_i386.deb now? [Yn]
(Reading database … 20722 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ucspi-tcp (from ucspi-tcp_0.88-10_i386.deb) …
Adding `diversion of /usr/man/man5/tcp-environ.5.gz to /usr/man/man5/tcp-environ.5q.gz by ucspi-tcp’
dpkg-divert: error checking `/usr/man/man5/tcp-environ.5q.gz’: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing ucspi-tcp_0.88-10_i386.deb (–install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
ucspi-tcp_0.88-10_i386.deb

Maybe it’s because I am using ubuntu 8.04.1 server and I don’t have a /usr/man directory, not sure what ubuntu package installs that – seems rather hard to find out. Also have difficulty finding debian’s apt public key – strange they don’t put it in an easy to find place on the web.

By: Bob Wooden

Bob Wooden — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:03:24 +0000

Great simple, straight forward instructions.

When I got to creating users, I was copy and pasting instructions (I find I make fewer typos that way) and the adduser instruction failed with a ONLY ONE OR TWO USERS complaint. Seems the dashes that appear immediately in front of ‘-no-create-home’ and ‘-disabled-login’ are NOT actually dashes. By simply replacing those marks with a true dash (typed by keyboard) addusers worked fine. When you created you page of instructions, some how the dashes got changed.

Other than that minor issue, WORKED GREAT!!!

By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz

Joe "Floid" Kanowitz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:15:28 +0000

Can you explain the inexplicable reference to /etc/inittab{new}?

By: Marcus Ilgner

Marcus Ilgner — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:25:16 +0000

Thanks a lot, that was really helpful!
Only thing to notice is that 10.0.0.105 has to be replaced by the public IP of the nameserver – at first I wasn’t sure if it was that or the IP of the nameserver to forward to.