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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:21:17 -0800
From:      Noah Garrett Wallach <noah@juniper.net>
To:        Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: named not starting during boot
Message-ID:  <45E4688D.6060101@juniper.net>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20070227084100.02563750@mail.computinginnovations.com>
References:  <45E38849.3090100@juniper.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20070227084100.02563750@mail.computinginnovations.com>

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Hi there,

I dont have a user name named.  I have a user named bind.  so bind is 
what I am going with.

named_enable="YES"
named_uid="bind"
named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"
named_flags="-c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_chrootdir="/var/named"


cheers,

Noah


Derek Ragona wrote:
> In the newer versions of bind you need to add to /etc/rc.conf:
> named_uid="username"
> you want to run named as.
>
>         -Derek
>
> At 07:24 PM 2/26/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant 
>> figure out why.
>> there are no error mesasges in /var/log/messages during the boot 
>> process.
>>
>> even when I manually start there are no error messages.
>>
>> # grep named /etc/rc.conf
>> named_enable="YES"
>> # pkg_info | grep bind
>> bind9-9.3.4         Completely new version of the BIND DNS suite with 
>> updated D
>>
>>
>>
>> # grep BIND messages
>> Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> # /etc/rc.d/named stop
>> # /etc/rc.d/named start
>> # grep BIND messages
>> Feb 26 11:50:53 access2 named[1704]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 14:07:19 access2 named[990]: starting BIND 9.3.3
>> Feb 26 17:19:59 access2 named[966]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:07 access2 named[974]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:20:19 access2 named[981]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>> Feb 26 17:23:46 access2 named[1005]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -c 
>> /etc/namedb/named.conf
>>
>> any clues please?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Noah
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