named stop not stopping

[Guy Helmer]

Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:01:53 -0500
>> From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer at palisadesys.com>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>
>> Lisa Besko wrote:
>>     
>>> We had an issue with the /etc/rc.d/named script this morning where it 
>>> looped/hung in the wait_for_pids subroutine.  We run a job to restart 
>>> named which calls the /etc/rc.d/named script with a stop command.  For 
>>> some reason named did not stop properly and the process continued to 
>>> list PIDs from the wait_for_pids subroutine forever.  Has anyone ever 
>>> encountered this before?
>>>
>>> We are running 7.2 stable and bind 9.4.3-P3 on an AMD system.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> LB
>>>       
>> Has named's rc script worked OK before?  If not, it might be a config  
>> problem like mine.  I found that after I added
>>   pid-file        "/var/run/named/pid";
>> to the options section of my named.conf file, the rc script was able to 
>> stop/restart a running named process.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Guy Helmer
>>     
>
> Odd. Unless something (like /etc/defaults/rc.conf) else was touched,
> this should not be required. It is already in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, a
> file that should be modified only with a really good understanding of
> the way it is used.
>
> Here is the current defaults for named:
> named_pidfile="/var/run/named/pid" # Must set this in named.conf as well
>
> You probably should only put the line 'named_enable="yes"' into
> /etc/rc.conf. Do not put it into /etc/defaults/rc.conf or change the
> entry in that file! Changes should only be made to /etc/rc.conf.
>   
Right, and it looks like the default pid file in named is 
/var/run/named.pid, so until I added a pid-file line to named.conf to 
match named_pidfile's setting in /etc/default/rc.conf, the named rc 
script wasn't successfully stopping/restarting named.

Guy