named not starting during boot

Noah Garrett Wallach noah at juniper.net
Tue Feb 27 17:21:22 UTC 2007


Hi there,

I dont have a user name named.  I have a user named bind.  so bind is 
what I am going with.

named_enable="YES"
named_uid="bind"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"


cheers,

Noah


Derek Ragona wrote:
> In the newer versions of bind you need to add to /etc/rc.conf:
> named_uid="username"
> you want to run named as.
>
>         -Derek
>
> At 07:24 PM 2/26/2007, 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.
>>
>> # grep named /etc/rc.conf
>> named_enable="YES"
>> # pkg_info | grep bind
>> bind9-9.3.4         Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with 
>> updated D
>>
>>
>>
>> # grep BIND messages
>> Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> # /etc/rc.d/named stop
>> # /etc/rc.d/named start
>> # grep BIND messages
>> Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:23:46 access2 named[1005]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>>
>> any clues please?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Noah
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