On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:17:41AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > i don't think it is necessary (or really desirable) to have the > postinst asking about running bind as root, i think that the number of > people who need it is far to small to justify ya interuption in the > system install.
I tend to disagree. bind could use debconf and ask a question with priority "low", default set to running bind without root permissions. Another approach is to fix bind by binding INADDR_ANY as was pointed out in this thread. This may have undesirable side-effects, though. - Sebastian
