RE: named failing to restart after updating to RHEL3 U4

["Holger Eilhard" <h eilhard wallmedien de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com 
> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Per 
> Steinar Iversen
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:50 AM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> Subject: Re: named failing to restart after updating to RHEL3 U4
>
> Our named broke too, we run named chroot. named.conf ended up 
> replaced 
> with a much shorter version. Renaming named.conf.rpmsave to 
> named.conf and 
> restarting bind fixed the problem. This happened at U3 too I
believe.

Interesting. I only had the did-not-restart problem. No named.conf or
other config files were replaced. We are also running in a chroot
environment.

> I am not very happy that these updates arrived so close to 
> Xmas, our site 
> is small and many key people are away on holidays. From my 
> point of view 
> it would have been better to release the updates first week 
> in January.

I can only second this. Although we only have a small amount of
servers, I'm not happy about the work I had/still have to do by hand.

Back to work...
Holger