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

[Charles W. <web...@op...>]

At 2:56 PM -0700 10/23/06, Jamie Cameron wrote:
>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

That's what var/run/named.pid contains -- the PID of the named process.
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Charles Whitaker
Webmaster
Open Door Networks