On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:41:15PM -0600, Rick Kelly wrote:
  | Well, my DNS server and main mail server is running 1.5.3RC1 with 
  | BIND 9.2.1. The newer BIND is installed in /usr/local/sbin. Now I
  | could turn off BIND in /etc/rc.conf, and start named in /etc/rc.local,
  | but some of the services in /etc/rc.d need named running. So I hacked the
  | script to run /usr/local/sbin/named. Later on, when I rebooted, I found that
  | I also had to hack the script to make sure that all the disks and partitions
  | were mounted so that /usr/local was mounted.

Instead of editing /etc/rc.d/named, try:
	echo 'command=/usr/local/sbin/named' >> /etc/rc.conf.d/named

Luke.