Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:35:27 -0500 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, besko@msu.edu Subject: Re: named stop not stopping Message-ID: <4A93079F.1030602@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <20090824205618.852C21CC09@ptavv.es.net> References: <20090824205618.852C21CC09@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:01:53 -0500 >> From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> >> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >> >> 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 >> > > Odd. Unless something (like /etc/defaults/rc.conf) else was touched, > this should not be required. It is already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, a > file that should be modified only with a really good understanding of > the way it is used. > > Here is the current defaults for named: > named_pidfile="/var/run/named/pid" # Must set this in named.conf as well > > You probably should only put the line 'named_enable="yes"' into > /etc/rc.conf. Do not put it into /etc/defaults/rc.conf or change the > entry in that file! Changes should only be made to /etc/rc.conf. > Right, and it looks like the default pid file in named is /var/run/named.pid, so until I added a pid-file line to named.conf to match named_pidfile's setting in /etc/default/rc.conf, the named rc script wasn't successfully stopping/restarting named. Guy
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