[ILUG] Trouble starting named

[Alan Sobey]

Thanks - solved it,

bloody stupid mistake.
SuSE stores variables in /etc/rc.config.
START_NAMED was set to no. Doh!
Should have poked about a bit more before posting.
(Incidently named was running at the time, and runs fine when started
manually)
Thanks,
Alan.

> 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?
>
yes

> > 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