From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 8 05:58:39 2011 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 C9C2D106566B for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 05:58:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B66E8FC13 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 05:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 18FA8E8048C; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:58:37 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20110708055837.GA21564@thought.org> References: <20110707180041.GA90387@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110707180041.GA90387@thought.org> Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: DNS and file system messed up... 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, 08 Jul 2011 05:58:39 -0000 On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:00:42PM +0000, Gary Kline wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:00:42 +0000 > From: Gary Kline > Subject: DNS and file system messed up... > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > > Guys, > > I'd be much obliged to learn why /etc/rc.named start fails. This has been going > on for months. For some reason freebsd.org doesn't recognize part of my > domain, so I'm writing from my backup site, magnesium net. > > I did *somrthing* that keeps /etc/rc.d/named from working correctly. On the > second line below the ^+++++, you'll see a "none:0:/etc/named.conf" from > messages. The only way I can exec bind9 is by first doing a kill -9, then > explicitly starting named and then, with the -c switch , aiming it at my > *real* named.conf. > > I don't want to finish my new/latest install of 7.3 until I understand > this screwup. > Nobody has any clues to the capture output? I'm surprised. -g > > > > # sh /etc/rc.d/named start > Starting named. > > +++++ > # tail /var/log/messages > Jul 7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -t /var/named -u bind > Jul 7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: none:0: open: /etc/named.conf: file not found > Jul 7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: loading configuration: file not found > Jul 7 10:16:33 ethic named[54366]: exiting (due to fatal error) > > > # tail /var/log/messages > # kill -9 `head -1 /var/run/named/pid` > # /usr/local/sbin/named -c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf > > Jul 7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: starting BIND 9.3.6-P1 -c /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf > Jul 7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: command channel listening on > 127.0.0.1#953 > Jul 7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: command channel listening on ::1#953 > Jul 7 10:17:56 ethic named[54371]: running > > +++++ > > > -- > Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | kline@magnesium.net > Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate Email Site > http://www.magnesium.net/~kline > To live is not a necessity; but to live honorably...is a necessity. -Kant > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org