Informational warning re RH6.2beta and Rawhide

[Henri J. Schlereth]

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> would this be the reason that my dns runs but i can't get ndc stats to run.
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> named status
> ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): Connection refused
> ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/var/run/ndc)
> [root at tux init.d]#

I was able to generate the same message with the bind 8.2.2.P5-1 RPM
by the simple fact that named was not running. IIRC the initscripts
that came with 6.2 had DNS turned off in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d as a 
"security default".

Henri
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Henri J. Schlereth <henris at neandertal.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 6:08 AM
> Subject: Informational warning re RH6.2beta and Rawhide
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> > Somewhere around the RPM of 8.2.2.P5-6 to 8.2.2P5-9 on both the
> > Rawhide and 6.2Beta site RedHat has begun running Bind as user
> > named. 
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> > ndc stats and dumpdb now no longer work. The message in
> > syslog says, ndc unable to open named.stats file and
> > the ndc dumpdb command pretends like it works but creates
> > no file(s).
> >  
> > If you have 8.2.2P5-1 stick with that for now. The dash number
> > only means the nth compile of the 8.2.2.P5 version. A bugzilla
> > report will be submitted by me (to RH).
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> > Henri
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> > -- 
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> > Until you can smooze a vicious pit bull, I dont care what your
> > certificate says!
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