Remnants of 'unbound' in updated installations

Remnants of 'unbound' in updated installations

[Matthias Fischer]

Hi,

since it came to my view:

- 'unboundctrl' in '/usr/local/bin' is still present in updated
installations. I think its not needed anymore.

- 'unbound' user and group are there as well.

If we are no longer need these - than I could update the 'update.sh'
script for one of the coming core updates accordingly. ;-)

Can anyone confirm?

Best
Matthias

Re: Remnants of 'unbound' in updated installations

[Michael Tremer]

Hello Matthias,

> On 26 Jul 2026, at 17:38, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> since it came to my view:
> 
> - 'unboundctrl' in '/usr/local/bin' is still present in updated
> installations. I think its not needed anymore.

I have added a line to remove that file:

  https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=a30c851f2f5e94680d983576bb13cc2f0e27ebc2

> - 'unbound' user and group are there as well.

We chose to keep the user so that we don’t have any problems with left over files that might be owned by it due to some custom configuration changes.

> If we are no longer need these - than I could update the 'update.sh'
> script for one of the coming core updates accordingly. ;-)
> 
> Can anyone confirm?
> 
> Best
> Matthias
> 
>