named stop not stopping

[Doug Barton]

Kevin Oberman wrote:

>> Has named's rc script worked OK before?  If not, it might be a config  
>> problem like mine.  I found that after I added
>>   pid-file        "/var/run/named/pid";
>> to the options section of my named.conf file, the rc script was able to 
>> stop/restart a running named process.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Guy Helmer
> 
> Odd. Unless something (like /etc/defaults/rc.conf) else was touched,
> this should not be required. 

Guy was referring to /etc/namedb/named.conf, not /etc/*rc.conf*.

FWIW, the proper line is in the default named.conf file. I always
suggest that users start with that, and build from there.


Doug

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