On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:29:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly: > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly: > > > > This is very odd. > > > > > > > > My 'named' server won't start from SysV. > > > > > > > > It won't start from a root shell if I try > > > > # cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d > > > > # ./S10named start > > > > > > > > However, it will start if I do it by sourcing the file: > > > > # . ./S10named start > > > > > > You know, of course, that S10named is just a symlink to > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/named? What happens if you invoke this script > > > directly? You can also edit it, add "set -x" at the top for debugging > > > output, and then evaluate the differences between the two invocations > > > to see what's going wrong? > > > > > > Kurt > > > > I did that, and it's no where near as helpful as one would hope. For > > one thing, the differences first show up during the sourcing of > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions, which is (1) common to pretty much all > > of the SysV files, and (b) not causing problems for any of the others. > > Nothing terribly useful in here. What's in /var/log/messages? I'm > sure that somehow you've fubared the configuration. I seem to recall > an issue with OL 2.4 that the SysV script did not properly handle > /var/run/named.pid, which led to all sorts of interesting problems > starting and stopping BIND, particularly if you mixed usage of the > SysV scripts and direct invocation of the BIND. > > Kurt
Nothing at all is in /var/log/messages, at least as refers to named. Once I get it started, it occasionally logs things, but there's nothing about the failure to start. If it matters, I think I set it up with webmin. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
