rndc: connect failed: connection refused

[Steve Sandau]

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>>if I then restart using the command
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>>/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
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>>I just get
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>>Oct 17 18:21:31 dedi5 named[6183]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named
>>Oct 17 18:21:31 dedi5 named[6183]: using 1 CPU
>>Oct 17 18:21:31 dedi5 named: named startup succeeded
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>>If I then do
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>>ps aux|grep named
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>>it returns no running processes and named is not running
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>>I note that it doesn't appear to be loading the conf file when using the 
>>startup script
> 
> 
>        -d debug-level Set the daemons debug level to debug-level.
>                       Debugging traces from named become more verbose as the
>                       debug level increases.
>        -f     Run the server in the foreground (i.e. do not daemonize).
>        -g     Run  the  server in  the  foreground and  force all logging
>               to stderr.
> 
> I beleave one of these flags will help. Especialy the -d. I've used it
> to make the process more verbose so I could trace problems and find out
> where the issue lies when bind wasn't working properly for me. Another
> tool at your disposal is strace and it'll print output to stdout.
> 

Good ideas. But, before that you might take a look at 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named and see that is is pointing to the same named 
that 'which named' points to (i.e. that you are running the same 
executable in both cases). You should also look at any arguments that 
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named uses. As an example problem, some versions of 
named will fail with an argument of -g named IIRC.

Steve