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Lisa Besko wrote:
> We had an issue with the /etc/rc.d/named script this morning where it 
> looped/hung in the wait_for_pids subroutine.  We run a job to restart 
> named which calls the /etc/rc.d/named script with a stop command.  For 
> some reason named did not stop properly and the process continued to 
> list PIDs from the wait_for_pids subroutine forever.  Has anyone ever 
> encountered this before?
>
> We are running 7.2 stable and bind 9.4.3-P3 on an AMD system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> LB
Has named's rc script worked OK before?  If not, it might be a config  
problem like mine.  I found that after I added
  pid-file        "/var/run/named/pid";
to the options section of my named.conf file, the rc script was able to 
stop/restart a running named process.

Hope this helps,
Guy Helmer