Cannot start named also cannot find named.conf

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Amanat

I have removed bind-base and installed bind96-9.6.1.3

using
#cd /usr/ports/dns/bind96
#make PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9=yes all install

now i cannot find named.conf

i used
#/user/ibexec/locate.updatedb ## this was to update locate databse
#locate named | less

i couldn't find named.conf

also
#/usr/sbin/named start

gives following output:

Code: 
usage: named [-4|-6] [-c conffile] [-d debuglevel] [-f|-g] [-n number_of_cpus]
             [-p port] [-s] [-t chrootdir] [-u username]
             [-m {usage|trace|record|size|mctx}]
named: extra command line arguments

I m using freebsd 8.0

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Not sure about the port but the default bind version is started like so:
# /etc/rc.d/named start

Normally ports install their 'stuff' with /usr/local/ as a prefix. So their startup scripts and configs live in /usr/local/etc/.

But as I said I'm not sure about bind with the PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND option. Most likely it will use the 'default' bind start scripts and configs. This should be /etc/namedb/named.conf and /etc/rc.d/bind.

You're trying to use start as an argument to the named executable itself. And it obviously doesn't like that ;)
 
Not /etc/rc.d/bind, it's /etc/rc.d/named. The port really replaces the base named in its entirety.
 
Both are not working

/etc/rc.d/named

/etc/rc.d/bind

/usr/sbin/named

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/named

not a single named is working on my system.

I tried to locate all named but no success.

Even cannot find named.conf in whole files system.

SOS!

I don't wana install freebsd again i wana shoot it on legs so that it may not ran away again.
 
The option PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9=yes is wrong. See the port's Makefile. It's WITH_REPLACE_BASE.
 
Also look in /var/log/messages. You can run [cmd=]/etc/rc.d/named start[/cmd] a million times over, if it fails, it does so pretty quietly.
 
Cool..

Probably the best way to run a newer version of something is to see if you can 'adjust' the current port a bit. Sometimes all you need to do is to change the PORTVERSION and update the port's distinfo file. Updating distinfo can be done with [cmd=]make makesum[/cmd]. If you install software using the ports system it'll be easier to keep track of the installed version.
 
Still, installing the BIND port (with the 'replace base' option) takes a few minutes of compiling plus a few minutes of configuring. Everything's installed in the default locations. Not sure why you went off the deep end and made it so complicated, but whatever makes you happy ...
 
making it more complicated was going for Patch v3 or P3, thats why i installed bind-9.6.1-P3, the latest and already patched.
 
Amanat said:
making it more complicated was going for Patch v3 or P3, thats why i installed bind-9.6.1-P3, the latest and already patched.
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I hate to break this to you but the version in the ports is actually newer; 9.6.2.

dns/bind96

It got updated about a week ago.
 
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