From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Mon Dec 24 05:37:02 2007
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 8481816A41A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:37:02 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za)
Received: from hermes.hst.org.za (onix.hst.org.za [209.203.2.133])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A063E13C459
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:37:00 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za)
Received: from [10.1.11.1] ([10.1.11.1]) (authenticated bits=0)
	by hermes.hst.org.za (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lBO5WUXA021677
	(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO)
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:32:32 +0200 (SAST)
	(envelope-from jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za)
From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:43:37 +0200
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4
References: <476ECA9B.4090805@free.fr> <476EE526.2000501@free.fr>
	<839aec700712231627k4457c65dx45791c76cd01b2fa@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <839aec700712231627k4457c65dx45791c76cd01b2fa@mail.gmail.com>
X-Face: $@VrUx^RHy/}yu]jKf/<4T%/d|F+$j-Ol2"2J$q+%OK1]&/G_S9(=?iso-8859-1?q?HkaQ*=60!=3FYOK=3FY!=27M=60C=0A=09aP=5C9nVPF8Q=7DCilHH8l?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?=3B=7E!42HK6=273lg4J=7Daz?=@1Dqqh:J]M^"YPn*2IWrZON$1+G?oX3@
	=?iso-8859-1?q?k=230=0A=0954XDRg=3DYn=5FF-etwot4U=24b?=<FO&kjQCGnjz>dTS{i<i?:=p!]'t#K~4)cr7o%ygQiso
Organization: Health Systems Trust
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200712240743.37582.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
X-Spam-Score: -4.336 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00
X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.61 on 209.203.2.133
Subject: Re: BIND9 won't start
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:37:02 -0000

On Monday 24 December 2007 02:15, Jonathan Horne wrote:

> otherwise, there is always 'forcestart' intead of 'start'.

and Darren Spruell wrote:

> You can get around the need to activate the variable by=20
> prefixing your commands with the 'force' keyword (e.g.
> /etc/rc.d/named forcestart, etc.)=20

To start a service which isn't enabled in rc.conf, it's better to use

onestart

=46rom the rc.subr(8) manpage:

    force  Skip the checks for rcvar being set to ``YES'', and
           sets rc_force=3DYES.  This ignores argument_precmd
           returning non-zero, and ignores any of the required_*
           tests failing, and always returns a zero exit status.

    one    Skip the checks for rcvar being set to ``YES'', but
           performs all the other prerequisite tests.

Jonathan