Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:20:01 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...: >Am 2010-11-16 21:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > >> I've seen the weirdest inexplicable things from bind (and vixie-cron >> too, now that I think

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:12 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, Stefan G. Weichinger did opine thusly: > Am 2010-11-16 21:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > I've seen the weirdest inexplicable things from bind (and vixie-cron too, > > now that I think of it). > > OT: what is your recommended al

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > The problem is, it runs forever, and does not want to stop: > Standard practice for any daemon that doesnt want to stop via the init script, most graceful to most forceful; 1. Try the daemons native shutdown command (some have an option to shutdown only after any connected clients are serviced

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2010-11-16 21:55, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > I've seen the weirdest inexplicable things from bind (and vixie-cron too, now > that I think of it). OT: what is your recommended alternative to vixie-cron then? thx, S

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Jarry did opine thusly: > > Failing that, there's "kill -9", this won't break anything but might > > disconnect a client. > > Well, I could kill the process while working in terminal. But when > I forget to do it and try to shutd

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Jarry
On 16. 11. 2010 20:47, Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you absolutely *have* to run bind? Aside from it being a 100% RFC-compliant reference server, it's a pig to run in real life. For an auth server, powerdns is very good. For a cache, unbound. Well, not *absolutely*, but I'm an old dog used to work

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:17 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Jarry did opine thusly: > Hi, > today I updated my bind from 9.4.3_p5 to 9.7.1_p2. I noticed > a few changes in configuration so first I did full backup, then > uninstalled 9.4.3_p5 first, removed all configuration files, > then e

[gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

2010-11-16 Thread Jarry
Hi, today I updated my bind from 9.4.3_p5 to 9.7.1_p2. I noticed a few changes in configuration so first I did full backup, then uninstalled 9.4.3_p5 first, removed all configuration files, then emerged 9.7.1_p2, and configured it to run from chroot. named seems to start normally: # /etc/init.d