[Pdns-users] successful installation of recursor 5.2 on non-systemd

[Brian Candler]

On 11/04/2025 15:38, Curtis Maurand wrote:
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> https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/running.html
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That documentation is for PDNS Authoritative. I believe you were talking 
about PDNS Recursor, which is a different piece of software.

Source release tarballs for both can be found here:

https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/

It looks like PDNS Authoritative *does* contain a SysV init script:

% tar -tjvf pdns-4.9.4.tar.bz2 | grep contrib
drwxr-xr-x  0 root   root        0  6 Feb 15:18 pdns-4.9.4/contrib/
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     2948  6 Feb 15:17 
pdns-4.9.4/contrib/powerdns.solaris.init.d

But PDNS Recursor does not:

% tar -tjvf pdns-recursor-5.2.2.tar.bz2 | grep contrib
drwxr-xr-x  0 root   root        0  8 Apr 11:42 pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     1898  8 Apr 11:40 
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/SMF-powerdns-recursor.xml
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root      837  8 Apr 11:40 
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/dns64.lua
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     3786  8 Apr 11:40 
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/powerdns-example-script.lua
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root      201  8 Apr 11:40 
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/upstart-recursor.conf
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root    24473  8 Apr 11:40 
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/syncres.dot
-rw-r--r--  0 root   root     1885  8 Apr 11:40 
pdns-recursor-5.2.2/contrib/kv-example-script.lua
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