Re: [webmin-l] Can't stop BIND

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 23/Oct/2006 14:45 Charles Whitaker wrote ..
> Greetings,
> 
> We've been running Webmin 1.290 on OS X Server 10.4.7 for several 
> months now, using it exclusively to configure and maintain BIND, and 
> it's been working fine. The other day, though, BIND stopped 
> responding to requests to stop or restart the server. If we click 
> "Stop Name Server", when the next page in Webmin comes up, the button 
> is still labelled "Stop ..." instead of being renamed to "Start Name 
> Server". Also, rndc shows that named is still running. I haven't seen 
> any errors in system.log or named.log.
> 
> Anyone have an idea of what might be going on, or how to troubleshoot 
> it? Thanks.

When BIND is impoperly stopped like this, what does the file /var/run/named.pid
contain? Webmin expects it to have the PID of the named process (when it is 
running).

 - Jamie