BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

[Cezar Fistik]

Hello group,

Thank you all for your suggestions. I don't know why but I didn't have
named in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ at all, so I copied it from
/usr/src/etc/rc.d/ but it didn't work either. No restarting, just
stopping. BTW bind9 user guide on isc site says that SIGHUP should restart the
service with no problem. I like the idea with the pid file and
definetely would have tried it but I installed bind84 and everything
works great. Anyway I didn't need all new features of bind9.
Is it a bug? :-(


KP> Panagiotis Christias wrote:

>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 20:51:06 +0100, Kees Plonsz
>> <kees at jeremino.hbunix.net> wrote:
>>> Cezar Fistik wrote:
>>> 
>>> > Hello group,
>>> >
>>> > I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i
>>> > try to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon
>>> > just gets killed and not restarted. Does any body have an idea why this
>>> > happens?
>>> > 
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Cezar
>>> 
>>> That same thing happens here (FreeBSD-5.3)
>>> 
>>> The manual says:
>>> 
>>> In  routine  operation, signals should not be used to control the
>>>  name-server; rndc should be used instead.
>> 
>> Using kill -HUP can be handy for rotating named logs via newsyslog.
>> Any workaround?
>> 
>> Panagiotis

KP> You could do:

KP> /etc/rc.d/named stop
KP> logrotate
KP> /etc/rc.d/named start

KP> ( "rndc restart" is not implemented yet :-)

KP> I get troubles with the "pid-file" in named.conf.
KP> Named doesn't seem to read it, so I used the default pid:
KP> "/var/run/named.pid" and not "/var/run/named/pid" mentioned in the script.


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Best regards,
Cezar                            mailto:cezar at arax.md