pid unknown

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8di6bp$od$1 at news0.skynet.be>,
Jan Van Rompaey <van.rompaey.jan at skynet.be> wrote:
>hello,
>
>I've got a bind running on suse linux but encountered the following problem:
>bind seems to be running, (nslookup works), but if I use "ndc status" then I
>get a response "no processes available - named (pid 425?) not running",
>stopping with "/sbin/init.d/named stop" does also not work. In the log files
>i get errors like "starting - there may be a name server already running -
>exiting" (it seems to me that the pid number is unknown - a reboot seems to
>solve the problem - anyone knows how to solve this without rebooting ?)

Named writes its PID to a file, usually /etc/named.pid, although the
directory is different on some systems.  It sounds like ndc and named are
using different files, so the file that ndc looks in doesn't contain the
actual PID of named.

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