From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 16:49:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48831500D for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 16:49:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA71558; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 01:49:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 01:49:32 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001090049.BAA71558@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.conf X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <857qtb$lfk$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG People, please read Jackson's problem report more carefully. The problem is obviously _not_ that named doesn't want to start (that's just a symptom), but that setting the variable named_enable in /etc/rc.conf does not work. Jackson Donadel wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > named_enable="YES" > > This option in /etc/rc.conf will run named, no? Yes. It should. > [...] > I put a echo "X${named_enable}" in rc.network, to see what is wrong, and > the answer is XNO, with > named_enable="YES" I see two possibilities: (1) Your /etc/rc is not read at all. This would be very surprising. Did you any modifications to /etc/rc or /etc/defaults/rc.conf? (2) The contens of the named_enable variable get overwritten at some point beetween where you set it in /etc/rc.conf and where it's used in /etc/rc.network. Please look at the _complete_ /etc/rc.conf file, from top to bottom. Is there any other line which also happens to set named_enable, thus overriding your setting? If everything else fails, try ``grep named_enable /etc/rc*'' to find all places where named_enable might be set. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message