installing on SLES 10sp3

[David Forrest]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote:

> David Forrest wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Lyle Giese wrote:
>> 
>>> I am trying to install bind 9.7.1-P2 from source on a SLES 10 SP3 server.
>>> 
>>> When I run named from the command line, it runs, but fails to open and 
>>> write any of the zone files it downloaded.
>>> 
>>> named -c /etc/named.conf   (yes I am running this a root)
>>>

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>
> I checked the version of named and named-checkconf using -v and -V and tried 
> running it via the full path.  They have the right version number 9.7.1-P2.
>
> Lyle Giese

Lyle,  since it runs from the command line, it would seem that you're left 
with the zone files and those special files named needs.  From the 
named-checkconf man:
  "Note: files that named reads in separate parser contexts, such as 
rndc.key and bind.keys, are not automatically read by named-checkconf.
    Configuration errors in these files may cause named to fail to run, 
even if named-checkconf was successful.  named-checkconf can be run on 
these files explicitly, however."

I have also found some pesky errors in my zone files by running 
named-checkzone on them. That may be indicated as you can run but the 
zones don't open.

Dave

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