making Samba work [new detail]

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Aug 9 15:19:11 UTC 2005


Claude Jones wrote:
> 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. 

There's nothing wrong with the `zone "." ...' part; the error message 
means that you left a semicolon off the end of whatever configuration 
element is immediately before that in the named.conf file.

Paul.




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