making Samba work [new detail]

Claude Jones claude_jones at levitjames.com
Tue Aug 9 15:10:59 UTC 2005


On Tue August 9 2005 10:09 am, Paul Howarth wrote:
>
> I'd look at both /etc/named.conf and /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
> and see merge any changes you've made into
> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf. Only then delete /etc/named.conf and
> make the symlink.
>

First - I appreciate all the answers you've given on this. Thank you.
It would seem that I may have munged things in my unknowledgeable exuberance. 
I discovered that my original named.conf had been symlinked to the chroot one 
in my default installation. It had been converted to a regular file when I 
tried to edit it in some early stage of this process. The statements that I 
tried to alter were the controls entries. I've got all this straightened out, 
and now things are different, not working still, but for a different reason. 
If I try to restart named I get the following after a Ctl-c because it fails 
to be able to stop it:

[root at viewridgeproductions2 etc]# service named restart
Stopping named:                                            [FAILED]
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.conf:33: missing ';' before 'zone'
                                                           [FAILED]

That line starts the following:

zone "." IN {
	type hint;
	file "named.ca";
};

I'm not sure now, where that entry came from. I didn't put it in there 
consciously, but, there it is - I guess it is choking on the period, but my 
first read of man named.conf doesn't tell me anything. I'm not sure where to 
look next. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA




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