From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 6:33:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tor3.targetnet.com (smtp.tor3.targetnet.com [207.176.132.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FA737B423 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:33:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james by smtp.tor3.targetnet.com with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13eHLC-0008K3-00; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:33:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:33:42 -0400 From: James FitzGibbon To: Garry Reid Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mini-DNS system Message-ID: <20000927093342.C21969@targetnet.com> References: <000c01c0285c$8acf0820$fa00a8c0@my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000c01c0285c$8acf0820$fa00a8c0@my.domain>; from garryrei@paradise.net.nz on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:25:47PM +1200 Organization: Targetnet.com Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Garry Reid (garryrei@paradise.net.nz) [000927 04:26]: > Doing additional network setup: namedSep 27 20:10:30 mydomain named [79]: /etc/namedb/named.boot:3: syntax error near directory > portmap. > > the line it refers to in the named.boot file is :- > directory /etc/namedb > > thank you for any help or suggestions you maybe able to offer Per the named.conf manpage: options { [ directory path_name; ] }; path_name A quoted string which will be used as a pathname, such as "zones/master/my.test.domain". The short form of which is "quote the path" and it will work. Also remember the trailing semicolon if you really don't have one in the file. -- j. James FitzGibbon james@targetnet.com Targetnet.com Inc. Voice/Fax +1 416 306-0466/0452 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message