Starting BIND 9

[Adam Lang]

as I can tell, you need rndc.conf because rndc replaces ndc and rndc needs
to have keys to negotiate with named.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cihan Subasi (Garanti Teknoloji)" <CihanS at garanti.com.tr>
To: "'BRANCH DONALD'" <DBRANCH at ibjus.com>; "Adam Lang"
<aalang at rutgersinsurance.com>; <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 6:30 AM
Subject: RE: Starting BIND 9


> I just installed my Bind9.1.0 on aix and did the necessary changes in my
> conf file.....The server is both master for some zones and slave for some
> others...but now I cannot control the the dns with ndc (rndc)...Do I need
a
> rndc.conf file? or is there a way to work around this problem...? and also
> in my version "rndc start" does not exist (how I would start the named
with
> rndc?)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BRANCH DONALD [mailto:DBRANCH at ibjus.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:57 PM
> To: Adam Lang; bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: RE: Starting BIND 9
>
>
>
> Adam
>
> I created a run directory under /home/named since named owns that
> directory and put under the options section in your named.conf file
> pid-file "/home/named/run/named.pid";   and that should solve your
problem.
>
> Donald Branch
> Unix Admin
> Mizuho Financial Group (IBJ)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Lang [mailto:aalang at rutgersinsurance.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 4:50 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Starting BIND 9
>
>
>
> Ok, I'm encountering several permission errors when trying to start BIND 9
> and I would like some pointers on the better way to do this.
>
> named.conf and rndc.conf are in /etc.
>
> in named.conf, I have the directory as /home/named (all files inside it
are
> owned by named:named)
>
> I tried named and it bombed with the error of:
> change directory to '/home/named' failed: permission denied
>
> So, i tried named -u named and the above worked but then I bomb on this:
> couldn't open pid file '/var/run/named.pid': Permission denied
>
> I don't want to mes with file permissions of that directory, so I'm not
> quite sure what to do.
>
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com