Bind interaction with NDC

[Kevin Darcy]

I can't think of anything within BIND that would cause recurring invocations
of named consistently on the hour. Are you sure there isn't some cron job or
something on your system that's constantly trying to start named? Maybe
something that *thinks* named has crashed (possibly because it's looking in
the wrong place for the "pid" file)?

Idea: temporarily turn "named" into a simple shell (or Perl, or whatever)
script that just does a long "sleep". Then when the hour rolls around, the
process that's trying to start it will get stuck and you'll be able to
identify it just by using "ps".


- Kevin

Lee Howard wrote:

> Don't know, but following the subject of your subject, I've had trouble
> using ndc.  If I do '/usr/sbin/ndc restart' I eventually get multiple named
> processes attempting to run, and it kills itself.  My logs indicate that
> this occurs every hour on the hour, to the second.  '/etc/rc.d/init.d/named
> restart' doesn't have this problem.
>
> I'm ignorant enough to not know the differences.
>
> Lee.
>
> At 03:40 PM 6/28/00 -0700, Mark R. Nathan wrote:
> >
> >I have a log error that is associated with running BIND and dont know
> >what it means or how to correct it.  Can somebody PLEASE point me in
> >the right direction.  I enjoy learning how to do things by myself but
> >sometimes we all need a helping hand.
> >
> >
> >unix control "/var/run/ndc" connect failed: permission denied
> >ctl_server: bind: already in use
> >couldn't create pid file "/var/run/named.pid"
> >
> >named.retart via root seems to correct this temporarily.
> >
> >Thank You!!
> >
> >Mark Nathan