Question about Bind

[Lisa Casey]

Hi Folks,

I seem to have basically screwed things up, so maybe I can get some help 
getting straightened out.

For a long time, I ran apache 2 and bind 8.2.5 on FreeBSD 3.2. Granted 3.2 
is old, my server was getting older, so I set up a new box and installed 
FreeBSD 5.3

I did not realise installing FreeBSD would automatically install Bind 9.3. I 
figured if I needed to run bind I'ld have to install it. I didn't want to 
make too many changes at once so I installed bind 8.4 from ports.

Now I  seem to have both bind 8.4 and bind 9.3 installed. Probably not a 
good situation.

What I suppose I ought to do is to uninstall the bind 8.4 and keep the bind 
9.3. How do I do that? I have never worked with ports before (although I 
think I'll like it once I get used to it).

Also - and this is a biggie. named and   apache do not start on bootup and I 
NEED this to happen. I have asked for help on this on this list and on the 
bind usenet group and implemented the syggestions I got but if I reboot the 
box named and apache do not start. I have to start these manually.

My /etc/rc.conf looks like this:


# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.

# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Created: Thu Sep 15 14:11:28 2005

# -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Thu Sep 15 09:29:00 2005
# Created: Thu Sep 15 09:29:00 2005
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
# Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
# This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
defaultrouter="63.162.128.1"
hostname="netlink.jellico.com"
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 63.162.128.4  netmask 255.255.254.0"
inetd_enable="YES"
linux_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
apache_enable="YES"
named_enable="YES"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-u bind -g bind -c /usr/local/etc/named.conf"

When I reboot I see this in /var/log/messages:

Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: starting (/usr/local/etc/named.conf). 
named
 8.4.4 Thu Sep 15 16:42:34 EDT 2005 
lisa at netlink.jellico.com:/usr/ports/dns/
bind84/work/src/bin/named
Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024)
Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: can't open '/usr/local/etc/named.conf'
Sep 21 17:02:00 netlink named[291]: can't open '/usr/local/etc/named.conf'

So I log on, start named manually and it starts:

Sep 21 17:02:14 netlink su: lisa to root on /dev/ttyp0
Sep 21 17:02:52 netlink named[495]: starting (/usr/local/etc/named.conf). 
named
 8.4.4 Thu Sep 15 16:42:34 EDT 2005 
lisa at netlink.jellico.com:/usr/ports/dns/
bind84/work/src/bin/named
Sep 21 17:02:52 netlink named[495]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024)
Sep 21 17:02:53 netlink named[496]: Ready to answer queries.


What is wrong here? I'm sorry to keep bugging  you guys but I need to get 
this fixed.

Also: I have the Complete FreeBSD third edition, but I don't think it is 
going to be as useful for FreeBSD 5.3 as it was for FreeBSD 3.2. 
Reccomendations for a good book to help me with the 5.3??


Thank you so much,

Lisa Casey