[ILUG] Trouble starting named

[Lars Hecking]

Alan Sobey writes:
> I'm having trouble starting named from a vanilla SuSE 6.3 box.  I think I've
> narrowed it down to the following:
> The symlink to ../named doesn't appear to execute.  Any ideas?
>
> jira:/sbin/init.d/rc2.d # ../named status
> OK

 Is named already running?

> jira:/sbin/init.d/rc2.d # ./S11named status
> jira:/sbin/init.d/rc2.d # ls -l S11named
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Jan 29 12:12 S11named -> ../named
> jira:/sbin/init.d/rc2.d # ls -l ../named
> -rwxr--r--   1 root     root          731 Nov  8 20:26 ../named
 
 I am not familiar with SuSE, but on those systems I can check right
 now, named only starts of the config file is found, eg.

if [ -f /usr/sbin/in.named -a -f /etc/named.conf ]; then
        echo 'starting internet domain name server.'
        /usr/sbin/in.named &
fi