Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Noah wrote:
> So I Have 6.2 install on my machine and restarting named gets the  
> following error.
>
> any clues what is creating this?
>
> # /etc/rc.d/named restart
> Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .

By default, named runs in a chroot()ed environment under /var/named,  
and thus the path to the PID file which rndc expects to find under / 
var/run/named.pid actually gets put under /var/named/var/run/named.pid.

It would be nifty to make ndc/rndc smart enough to understand how to  
find the pidfile under the chroot location.

-- 
-Chuck