From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 24 13:13:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02423 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02410 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:13:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01891; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:14:43 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24935; Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:14:31 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:14:00 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Jahan cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Named Thing & Make World Thing In-Reply-To: <3516AC2B.70F5F58A@pc.jaring.my> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jahan wrote: > Doug, > > Named did not return from its "-d 10" state ( v 2.2.1 ); > Waited for it to return for more than 2hrs. Although the man pages do not seem to mention it, `named -d' does not automatically go into background mode but stays in the foreground; requiring a `&' as part of the flags. Without the debug flag, it will go into daemon mode quite happily. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Chen | -insert-witty-quip-here- ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message