New install - bind is not asked to start - FreeBSD

[etan]

I have just insalled a fresh bsd system.

I have then installed the latest version of plesk
7.5.4

Everything went sweet, install did not fail.

It appears that bind is not being installed properly.

Trying to create named run-root directory... done
Trying to untar named run-root directory structure... usage: mknod name [b | c] major minor [owner:group]
usage: mknod name [b | c] major minor [owner:group]
chown: root: Invalid argument
done


Also when running /usr/local/psa/rc.d/psa restart the named/bind service is not restarting , it doesnt even appear in the list.

Anyone else had something similar happen?

 

[LordOfLA]

you may need to add the following to /etc/rc.conf:

named_enable="YES"
named_chrootdir="/usr/local/psa/named/run-root"

and then copy the rndc.conf and named.conf into the namedb subdirectort and symlink them back to the parent so that plesk can do its stuff.

 

[etan]

after doing that and rebooting, it seems to be looking in /etc/namedb/ for the configuration files.

Should this be the case?

 

[LordOfLA]

yes.

the script /etc/rc.d/named makes /etc/namedb a symbolic link to /usr/local/psa/named/run-root/

 

[etan]

if i have named_enable="YES"

more than one instance of bind trys to load ( not good )

If i dont have that line in the rc.conf

nothing loads

hmmmm


I shouldnt have to do this anyways ?

psa scripts should be running correctly ?

 

[LordOfLA]

Well I just clean installed my freebsd server from 5.4 to 5.3 to get around this issue myself

However I found this that may or may not help:

http://www.thirtyhelensagree.com/2005/06/25/plesk-753-on-freebsd-54-release/

 

[etan]

Are you saying you were running freebsd 5.4 ?

Im running fresh install freebsd 5.4 + 7.5.4 plesk

You got around it by doing a fresh install of freebsd 5.3 ?

 

[LordOfLA]

Yeah I was running 5.4, I did a fresh install of 5.3, and then I fuond that link that claims to fix issues on 5.4.

However you wont be able to auto-update on 5.4 anyway.

 

[etan]

btw, thanks for the link

 

[etan]

Interesting.

Auto update doesnt worry me so much.
( im sure there is a work around for that )

Ill give it a crack.

 

[etan]

I have played around with this.

It does not play nice.

I noticed other things not starting properly, and not behaving how they should.

 

[LordOfLA]

well it looked too good to be true but it was worth a go imo.

It does all just work on 5.3 though.

 

[etan]

Originally posted by LordOfLA
well it looked too good to be true but it was worth a go imo.

It does all just work on 5.3 though.

Works fine on 5.3?

 

[LordOfLA]

yup. I've setup a site on it already

Though I'm rather new to plesk. I have it mainly as an excersise to leaern it for my job as a spport tech at a datacentre.

Once I popped it to 5.3 its been happy as larry.

 

[etan]

Nice work.

Keep me posted on updates - or bugs u find