<div dir="ltr">Thank you for your continued support and patience.  That did it:<div><br></div><div>Followed the installation steps, and then:</div><div>=> Job for pdns.service failed because the control process exited with error code.<br>=> journalctl -xe:  Unable to open /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.local.gmysql.conf<br>=> chmod 666 /etc/powerdns/pdns.d/pdns.local.gmysql.conf<br>(ref: <a href="https://www.gitmemory.com/issue/PowerDNS/pdns/8333/533900554">https://www.gitmemory.com/issue/PowerDNS/pdns/8333/533900554</a>)<br>=> systemctl stop pdns.service<br>=> systemctl start pdns.service<br>=> systemctl status pdns.service => Active: active (running)<br># pdns_control version<br>4.4.1</div><div><br></div><div>I now have 3 more up to date versions of PDNS running.  Many thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>What is the best practice for keeping PDNS up to date?  (apt update && apt -y upgrade ? or does the fact that I have the <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pdns.list and </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">/etc/apt/preferences.d/pdns files set to </span>version 4.4.X keep it constrained to that version?)</div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div>Steve\Garner</div><div>+1 302 364 0325 (USA)<br></div><div><a href="mailto:stevenjgarner@gmail.com">stevenjgarner@gmail.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 3:35 AM Brian Candler <<a href="mailto:b.candler@pobox.com">b.candler@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>On 07/05/2021 22:38, Steven Garner
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              the file: '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pdns.list' with this
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                [arch=amd64] <a href="http://repo.powerdns.com/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://repo.powerdns.com/ubuntu</a> focal-auth-44<br>
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            <div><font face="monospace">E: Malformed entry 1 in list
                file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pdns.list (Component)</font></div>
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            <div><font face="monospace">E: The list of sources could not
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    <p>You didn't copy-paste it properly: you missed the word "main"
      from the end of the line.</p>
    <p>Check again here:</p>
    <p><a href="https://repo.powerdns.com/" target="_blank">https://repo.powerdns.com/</a></p>
    <p>click on "> Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa"<br>
      click on ">PowerDNS Authoritative Server - version 4.4.X"</p>
    <p>(Using https is probably better than http, but it does
      auto-redirect from http to https anyway, so it works either way)</p>
    <p>Regards,</p>
    <p>Brian.<br>
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