From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 16 22:28:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2345816A402 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E6E13C441 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:28:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l1GMSVvT024254 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:28:37 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l1GMSDbJ006766 for ; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:28:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l1GMSD2M006765 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:28:13 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:28:13 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070216222813.GA6746@kobe.laptop> References: <45D62898.60506@netfence.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D62898.60506@netfence.it> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.497, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.70, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: named already running? 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: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:28:57 -0000 On 2007-02-16 22:56, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > I'm getting this on several different 6.x servers: > > > # sh /etc/rc.d/named restart > > Stopping named. > > named already running? (pid=xxx). > > and named won't restart; if I then > > > # sh /etc/rc.d/named start > > Starting named. > > it works fine. > > Is this happening to other people? What could be the reason? > It's nothing critical, only a bit annoying, but I'm curious... yes. I've seen it happen too. I think it's a timing issue between the process going away and the new named trying to start. I haven't tried to find the *real* cause of this, but it may be worth filing a problem report, even if it's not a critical bug :)