From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 06:07:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D9516A468 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:07:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1641113C44B for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:07:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 29386 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2007 06:07:45 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id:Content-Type:To:From:Subject:Date:X-Mailer; b=NrKb9OQ+esrMZolTZwX3VB2MN2EgkBSdmHnPEfozWIRx3mW1Uny9Of75H+zRHgFxvowv6bKwi8NvEgpcgcXzZq7PPl+TSAFp4D+zmqEyTTrEOlPRr1dUPS3wfKECKDSu63pl91dCo7TSxoUmkQ6YoWSKvqwQslsB1ohARwAP1zM= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp114.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Nov 2007 06:07:44 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: MPkpthQVM1moxNUAAmoQSvJcwFV_hN5Gk5FE61ZBtz0xkwDzuQm6PYgmSVs1T4TNvVzvda7zzw-- Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: User Questions From: jekillen Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:08:35 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: named fails to start and run X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:07:46 -0000 Hi; I am getting the following messaged when named attempts to start at system startup: could not configure root hints from 'named.root': file not found loading configuration: file not found So what is supposed to tell this script where to find these files? (in FreeBSD rc script context: i looked over the script named in rc.d dir, but could not glean anything from it) They do exist in the proper places (assuming that "loading configuration" means it is trying to read named.conf, or perhaps rndc.conf). named version 9.x on FreeBSD 6.2 Extra info: This is a secondary name server for four domains. It was running on a laptop that died suddenly of hard drive failure. It was running Yellow Dog Linux. I've had to reconstruct the server on the present machine and I was not able to salvage the rndc.key file and rndc.conf from that machine. Thank you in advance; Jeff k