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

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

On 23/Oct/2006 15:12 Charles Whitaker wrote ..
> 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.

Is the PID file setting on the Module Config page also set to /var/run/named.pid ?

 - Jamie