editing rc.d/named?

[bind user]

> bind user wrote:
>> Hi All: I installed 9.6.0 alongside FreeBSD7's default 9.4.2, and it's
>> working fine when i start it manually, but I'm having trouble getting it
>> to start automatically. I edited etc/rc.d/named
>
> Don't do that. :) The rc.d system is designed to be configured with
> rc.conf. You probably want to do this:
> grep named /etc/defaults/rc.conf >> /etc/rc.conf
>
> Make sure that you only have one set of entries for named in
> /etc/rc.conf and then make your changes there. You probably want to
> uncomment the named_flags example for the -c option to named.
>
>> to:
>>
>>     command="/usr/local/sbin/named -c /etc/namedb/named.conf"
>> but when I restart the server, the default 9.4.2 install in
>> /usr/sbin/named starts instead of the path to 9.6 above?
>
> It's being overridden by rc.conf, which is how it's supposed to work.

Thanks for that detailed explanation, Doug...after years of running 
Unix/Bind blind (because it just worked), I'm finally understanding why 
things are the way they are. -AK