Start BIND automatically on W2K

[Danny Mayer]

At 01:14 PM 2/18/03, ObiWan wrote:
> > I am able to start named from the prompt like this:
> > >C.\winnt\system32\dns\bin\named -f -d2 -c
> > c:\winnt\system32\dns\etc\named.conf
> >
> > However, when I try to start it from services (ISC BIND) it complain  with
> > the following msg:
> >
> > "Could not start the ISC BIND service on Local Computer.
> >   Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly"
> >
> > When I start it like this, I don't include "-f" in the parameter list.
> >  Any Idee why it does'nt start via the service?
>
>Hum ...  wrong config somewhere, look at the event log
>and at the %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\named.run
>log file to see if you can find any messages which may
>help you spotting the problem

named.run won't have anything in it since it won't have gotten far enough
to start putting out records to the logs and that assumes that the logging
includes a complete file specification since it without a dircectory directive
it won't know where to put a log file.

Danny