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Subject: Re: named not starting during boot
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Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant 
> figure out why.
> there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot process.
> 
> even when I manually start there are no error messages.

Have you tried with "-fg" ?  There are a lot of really quick restarts in 
that log snippet around "5:20" ....

<snip>


> any clues please?

Not really, most of the time I think I'm completely clueless ;-)

Kevin Kinsey
-- 
I've been there.