named not starting on boot

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:03:49 -0800 Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> 
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have a freeBSD 5.5 server not starting named upon reboot.  any clues
> how I can troubleshoot this issue?
>
># grep named /etc/rc.conf
> named_enable="YES"
> named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
># /usr/local/sbin/named -version
> BIND 9.3.2-P2
># uname -a
> FreeBSD ns2.ps.juniper.net 5.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE #0: Tue May 23
> 14:58:27 UTC 2006
> root at perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
Try adding this to /etc/rc.conf:
named_symlink_enable="YES"

By default, named runs chrooted.  Look at /etc/rc.d/named

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/