fresh installation is hosed...

[Chris Buxton]

It's hard to guess what's wrong without seeing the directory structure  
of /var/named. If you don't have /var/named, and if named.conf is in / 
etc/namedb and not /var/named/etc/namedb, then you should omit the "- 
t /var/named" argument from the command line.

Note: Because you set the sysconfdir to /etc/namedb, the "-c /etc/ 
namedb/named.conf" argument is unnecessary. Also, "-u root" is not  
necessary unless your named has been configured with a different  
default user; I'm not even sure how to do that, although I know it can  
be done.

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On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:12 PM, <aklist_bind at enigmedia.com> <aklist_bind at enigmedia.com 
 > wrote:

> Hi All: I was attempting to build a new box to run Bind on...I did the
> following:
>
> fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2
> installed openssl-0.9.8g
> installed bind-9.4.1-P1 with:
>    ./configure --prefix=/usr
>        --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb
>        --mandir=/usr/share/man
>        --localstatedir=/var
>        --disable-threads
>        --with-openssl=/usr
>
> ...and everything was working...then I replaced named.conf with the
> named.conf from my existing server, and all hell broke loose! <g>
>
> After much massaging of named.conf, I'm still stuck...when I try to  
> start it
> with /usr/sbin/named (with or without switches) my error log says:
>
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -u root -c
> /etc/namedb/
> named.conf -t /var/named/
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: could not configure root hints from
> 'db.cache'
> : file not found
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: loading configuration: file not  
> found
> Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: could not configure root hints from
> 'db.cache'
> : file not found
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: loading configuration: file not  
> found
> Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
> Given that this is a fresh install, I don't care about rolling back  
> and
> starting over, if that's what I need to do. Or is this a simple
> pathing/permissions issue?
>
> Any insights would be appreciated.
>
>