Discussion

Before installing components on a BIND server (except Mac OS X), it's a good idea to know answers to the questions the installer will ask. Most of the answers can be found by examining the way named is launched - check the init script for named, or else look at the output of a command like one of these:

ps axww | grep named
ps efww | grep named

Look for the following options:

Note that if the -c option is not present, the default is often, but not always, /etc/named.conf. On FreeBSD, the default may be /etc/namedb/named.conf. The default can be set during compilation of BIND.

Men & Mice Central

The following questions affect installation of Men & Mice Central:

• Are you running named in a chroot() environment?
  • What is the chroot() directory?
• Where do you want to install the Men & Mice Suite binaries?
• Where do you want Men & Mice Central to keep its configuration files?
• Enter the user and group names under which you want to run the Men & Mice DNS Server Controller. This must be the user which is running named.

Men & Mice DNS Server Controller

The following questions affect installation of Men & Mice DNS Server Controller:

• Where is the BIND configuration file?
• Are you running named in a chroot() environment?
  • What is the chroot() directory?
• The installer needs to rearrange the files in /var/named and restart the name server. A backup will be created. Is this OK?
• Where do you want to install the Men & Mice Suite binaries?
• Enter the user and group names under which you want to run the Men & Mice DNS Server Controller. This must be the user which is running named.

Men & Mice CLI

If you use the combination installer to install the CLI, it will be placed into the location specified in answer to this question:

* Where do you want to install the Men & Mice Suite binaries?