Re: Namedb still using named.pid link?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Glen Johnson <gjohnson%valcom.com@localhost> writes:

> I just got named up and running on my NetBSD box.  I found using
> chroot was easy to use too, good job NetBSD.  When it came time to
> restart named I typed /etc/rc.d/named stop (as root).  I got "named
> not running? (check /var/run/named.pid)."  After checking things out
> named was indeed running, /var/chroot/named/var/run/named.pid did
> exist, but there was no /var/run/named.pid.
> I checked on line and found
> http://www.daemonnews.org/200110/named-chroot.html which states:
>
>    NetBSD 1.5.2 and older has a bug in /etc/rc.subr that prevents it
> from looking for the PID-file in the right place when
>    chroot is used. We simply place a symlink to work around this bug:
>    ln -s ~named/var/run/named.pid /var/run/named.pid
>
> I tried this and it works.  So my question is did I set something up
> wrong or does NetBSD still need this work around?  I figure I missed
> something, more likely, so what is it?
> Thank you,

Are you using

named=YES
named_chrootdir="/var/chroot/named"

in rc.conf?  See /etc/rc.d/named, which puts a symlink from /var/run to
the chroot.
(I am assuming you are using NetBSD 4.)