I see, my major issue with the knotc is that it isn't clear which commands are remote and which are not,
some require configuration and some not etc. But it is useful because of the '-w' flag. Even if we decide to remove it, we'll keep it for some time as a deprecated.

Just some remarks regarding the rc script (I am on git master all the time, so never had the chance to use it) -
The '-a' flag is default for some time and will be removed in the next release.
The 'running' command is now 'status' since 1.2.

Marek

On 23 April 2013 14:47, Erwin Lansing <erwin@dk-hostmaster.dk> wrote:
On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Erwin Lansing <erwin@dk-hostmaster.dk> wrote:

> Hi Marek,
>
> Indeed, I use the default FreeBSD rc script that is included in the port[1], which uses knotc to start.  It works fine by calling knotd directly.
> I've hacked the rc script locally so it works for now, if the knotc start/stop command disappear we'll just have to rewrite the rc script a bit, but won't be a problem at all.
>
And the 1 in the mail above:
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/dns/knot/files/knotd.in?revision=300896&view=co

Erwin

> Thanks,
> Erwin
>
> On Apr 23, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Marek Vavruša <marek.vavrusa@nic.cz> wrote:
>
>> Hi Erwin, are you by any chance starting it with knotc? I realized there is a problem, because knotc needs to create
>> an empty PID file to indicate that knotd instance is starting. But it mustn't drop privileges before starting knotd so it could result in PID file created in an inaccessible location. I have corrected this behavior and knotc start should work well in this case as well (will be included in the next release). In meantime, you can start it with running knotd directly (or knotd -d for daemonized mode). This should correctly drop privileges and run. I am almost thinking that keeping 'knotc start/stop' doesn't bring any extra benefit since it doesn't do anything extra.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marek
>>
>> On 23 April 2013 13:13, Erwin Lansing <erwin@dk-hostmaster.dk> wrote:
>> Thanks for the 1.2.0, some really nice features in there.  I especially like the zonestatus command.
>>
>> I have one problem though.  It seems that knot drops its root privileges too early, before trying to bind to the interface.
>> Configured with:
>> system { user bind.bind };
>> Results in:
>> Apr 23 12:26:26 l knot[25585]: [error] Could not bind to UDP interface 127.0.0.1 port 53.
>> Apr 23 12:26:26 l knot[25585]: [error] Could not bind to UDP interface ::1 port 53.
>>
>> Changing to root.bind, makes it work, hence my guess it's related to dropping privileges.  This is on FreeBSD 9.0.
>>
>> Any hints appreciated.
>>
>> Best,
>> Erwin
>>
>>
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