RE: [TCLUG:1781] DNS server timing out

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

don't use the named.restart, instead try this

/etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named start

that will do the named restart exactly the way redhat wants it to be done

On 16-Oct-98 Jennifer McNitt wrote:
> There was a named.pid file in the run directory.  I removed it and ran
> named.restart again.  I went into the log/messages file and am still
> seeing the following message:
> 
> Oct 16 10:01:05 spot named[3199]: There may be a name server already
> running
> Oct 16 10:01:05 spot named[3199]: exiting
> 
> I went back into the run directory and there is a named.pid file
> created again.  I did a ps aux |grep named and nothing is still
> showing up.
> 
> Jen
> 
> ---Hans Umhoefer <spudling@acm.cs.umn.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Jennifer McNitt wrote:
>> 
>> > The strange thing is that with my current configuration files, it
> was
>> > working fine.  It just all of a sudden stopped working.
>> 
>> It may be that you have a /var/run/named.pid file. Redhat uses those
> in
>> it's init scripts. If you have the file the init script thinks the
>> process is already running. I had a problem like this with samba.
> The init
>> script didn't want to start up smbd. The fact that the service simply
>> stopped working suggests it might be something similar. I just
> removed the
>> file and samba would start up again.
>> 
>> Good luck,
>> 
>> Hans
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Hans D Umhoefer (spudling@acm.cs.umn.edu)
>> 
>> 
>> 
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