From: Alan Sobey (ags at domain tinet.ie)
Date: Thu 03 Feb 2000 - 20:08:50 GMT
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
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