4.10-BETA named (not) starting

[Kenneth W Cochran]

>Subject: Re: 4.10-BETA named (not) starting
>From: Randy Rowe <rerowe at rerowe.com>
>To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at theworld.com>
>Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>Date: 15 Apr 2004 08:36:00 -0500
>
>On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 08:17, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
>> Hello -stable:
>> 
>> I just updated to -stable as of 2004/04/14 and named is not
>> starting at bootup.
>> 
>> >From /var/log/messages:
>> 
>> Apr 15 07:38:14 <console.info> localhost /kernel: can't open '/etc/namedb/named.conf'
>> 
>> But, if I become root & type "ndc start", named starts &
>> seems to run as before.
>> 
>> Any idea(s) what's happening here and/or how to fix?
>
>Your /etc/rc.conf should contain the following 2 lines:
>
>named_enable="YES"               # Run named, the DNS server (or NO).

Yes...

>named_flags="-t /etc/namedb /etc/named.conf"

This is what I have:

named_flags="-u bind -g bind -t /etc/namedb"

This has never been a problem before; shouldn't the config
file default to /etc/namedb/named.conf?  The message I'm
getting is coming from the *kernel*.  Wierd (so far...).

>This assumes that the location of named.conf is
>/etc/named/etc/named.conf

That would be /etc/named/named.conf  (spelling :)

-kc