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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:43:23 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        Noah Garrett Wallach <noah@juniper.net>, User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: named not starting during boot
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20070227084100.02563750@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <45E38849.3090100@juniper.net>
References:  <45E38849.3090100@juniper.net>

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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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