On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:24 +0200, Patrick wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 09:10 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007, Patrick wrote: > > >On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 01:05 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > >> Following the directions and making sure I have all of the packages > > >> noted install, I find I have no file to edit named: > > >> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf > > >> > > >> I'm supposed to edit the file in the "global section", which of course I > > >> have none. Thanx, Ric > > > > > >On my F7 laptop named.conf lives in /etc: > > >/etc/named.conf > > > > > Ric is asking about the chrooted version. I take it you missed that little > > detail... > > Yes I missed that so thanks for pointing that out. I have a named.conf > file in /var/named/chroot/etc/. It is part of the bind-chroot rpm. > Perhaps double check if bind-chroot really is installed? > > [patrick@laptop ~]$ rpm -ql bind-chroot | grep named.conf > /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf I made sure that it was installed and also updated it. Here's what I have: [root@iam ~]# ls /var/named/chroot/etc localtime named.caching-nameserver.conf named.caching-nameserver.conf.2007-09-18_02-23-28.364205826 named.rfc1912.zones named.rfc1912.zones.2007-09-18_02-23-28.373332212 rndc.key [root@iam ~]# No "named.conf". root@iam ~]# rpm -q bind-chroot bind-chroot-9.4.2-0.3.b1.fc7 [root@iam ~]# The package is installed. [root@iam ~]# ls -la /etc/named* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root named 52 2007-09-18 02:23 /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf -> /var/named/chroot//etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf Got a link to "named.caching-nameserver.conf" but no "named.conf" <sigh> Are you running FC7? I know darn well I had a "named.conf" in FC6. Weird, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
