From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 21:09:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA07196 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:09:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA07191 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:09:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id WAA20574; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:09:19 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199602140509.WAA20574@intele.net> Subject: Re: DNS and Bind on FreeBSD. To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:09:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Feb 10, 96 01:27:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > The command to run named is as follows: > > named -b /etc/namedb/named.boot > > It should be run out of /etc/rc.local, and NOT inetd or any other > mechanism. It is a free-standing daemon. No, on FreeBSD, it should be run by setting namedflags in /etc/sysconfig. No need to go hacking /etc/rc.local for something that is a standard system daemon, now is there? -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffett