Bind Newbie Question

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <38A87F4F.FAAB4127 at daimlerchrysler.com>,
> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >staalejg wrote:
> >
> >> This is really more of a Unix newbie question, but here we go anyway.  What
> >> is the preferred way of starting the named daemon upon boot-up?  I am
> >> running Bind on Solaris 7 x86.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >
> >I don't know about x86, but on Solaris 7 SPARC, /etc/rc2.d/S72inetsvc looks
> >for the existence of the /usr/sbin/in.named binary and /etc/named.boot, and
> >will automatically start up the daemon if both exist.
>
> If it really looks for /etc/named.boot, that's a serious bug.  Solaris 7
> comes with BIND 8, which uses named.conf, not named.boot.

Sorry, I mistyped. It does indeed look for named.conf.


- Kevin