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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:17:17 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Noah <admin2@enabled.com>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .
Message-ID:  <7D5C55E5-C525-471C-B12A-C47970EB8AF2@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070308220342.GR86959@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
[ ... ]
>> It would be nifty to make ndc/rndc smart enough to understand how to
>> find the pidfile under the chroot location.
>
> rndc doesn't need to know where the pid is; it connects directly to
> named over the control port (953) to do its magic.  Try running "rndc
> status" while named is running; if you get an error message  
> complaining
> about midding rndc.conf or rndc.key files, you may need to configure
> that before rndc will work.

"rndc status" works fine for me, but I recall that trying to use it  
to kill/restart named always fails when named is configured with  
chroot()....

-- 
-Chuck




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