/etc/rc.d/named stop (Was: Re: RFC: Upgrade BIND version in RELENG_7 to BIND 9.6.x)

[Doug Barton]

On 12/18/2010 14:51, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>One gripe is that stopping via rc script fails:
>
> # grep named /etc/rc.conf named_enable="YES"
> named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
>
> # /etc/rc.d/named stop named not running? (check
> /var/run/named/pid).
>
> ...because of the "-t /var/named", probably.  Is there a symlink or
> something I can do to fix this?

If you start named with the rc.d script it should do that for you.

ll /var/run/named/pid
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  bind  28 Dec 18 13:52 /var/run/named/pid@ -> 
/var/named/var/run/named/pid

Make sure you don't have named_symlink_enable=NO somewhere, for example 
in /etc/rc.conf.local.


hth,

Doug

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