pdnsd not starting?

[seraph741]

I installed pdnsd with the GUI and its giving me this error when i try to start it up:

 

cannot change directory to /var/lib/pdnsd: no such file

 

what does that mean? seems to me like its not installed correctly, why?

 

TIA!

[seraph741]

any1? it seems like its not installed properly, but i used URPMI. whats up?

[ianw1974]

Do you have all repositories on your system? (main, contrib, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree)

 

Maybe you're missing some dependencies causing the problem. Go into System/Configuration/Packaging/Software Media Manager and check to see if you have the above repositories.

 

If not, then remove pdnsd and then add the repositories and then reinstall it again later.

 

Remove with:

 

urpme pdnsd

 

or whatever the packagename is.

[seraph741]

i have all the repositories and it still doesn't run. I should have 2 files, pdnsd and pdnsd-ctl or something like that in var/lib or something, but i don't have those files. they seem to not install. do they go to a different folder?

[seraph741]

ok, i figured out that the files were in the wrong place, but now i get this error when trying to start the service:

 

Starting pdnsd: -bash: pdnsd: command not found

 

what does this mean?

 

Thanks!

[ianw1974]

How are you trying to start the service? They should exist in /etc/init.d so if pdnsd is not here, this will be why you can't start the service.

[seraph741]

i am trying to start using the gaphical environement. system conif > services or something like that. all i do is click start on next to pdnsd and it gives me that error.

[ianw1974]

Open up a command line and do this:

 

chkconfig --list

 

and see if pdnsd appears in the list. Does it have "on" against runlevels 3 and 5?

 

Now, try:

 

service pdnsd start

 

and if it fails, look in /etc/init.d/ and see if a file called pdnsd exists. If not, this is why your service is failing to start.

[seraph741]

hey man, thanks a lot. i would like to thank you for all your help with everything. i appreciate it.

 

i will try this when i get back from work!

 

thanks again!

[seraph741]

pdnsd is in all the places u asked me to look, but run level 3 and 5 say "OFF". How do I change this?

[scarecrow]

Can you post your /etc/pdnsd.conf ?

Maybe some setting in there is not right (eg ipv6 is enabled).

And you shouldn't move installed files by hand- never, ever.

Edited August 22, 2006 by scarecrow

[seraph741]

i haven't set it up really, just trying to get pdnsd to run, seems like install was wrong or something.

 

 // $Id: pdnsd.conf.in,v 1.4 2000/11/11 20:32:58 thomas Exp $

global {
perm_cache=512;
cache_dir="/var/cache/pdnsd";
max_ttl=604800;
run_as="nobody";
paranoid=on;
#	server_port=53;
#	server_ip="127.0.0.1";
}

server {
ip="192.168.0.1";
timeout=30;
interval=30;
uptest=ping;
ping_timeout=50;
purge_cache=off;
}

source {
ttl=86400;
owner="localhost.";
#	serve_aliases=on;
file="/etc/hosts";
}

/*
neg {
ttl=86400;
name="foo.bar.";
types=domain;
}

neg {
ttl=86400;
name="foo.baz.";
types=A,AAAA, MX;
}
*/
/*
rr {
ttl=86400;
owner="localhost.";
name="localhost.";
a="127.0.0.1";
soa="localhost.","root.localhost.",42,86400,900,86400,86400;
}

rr {
ttl=86400;
owner="localhost.";
name="1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.";
ptr="localhost.";
soa="localhost.","root.localhost.",42,86400,900,86400,86400;
} */

[ianw1974]

To turn the service on:

 

chkconfig pdnsd on

 

but if it won't work with:

 

service pdnsd start

 

then there can only be a config problem of some sorts if all the files are in the right place.

[scarecrow]

Do you have a user "nobody" in your system?

If you don't then it won't start (same is the default behaviour of some FTP servers, like proFTPd).

I believe than documentation suggests starting the daemon with

pdnsd -s

or

pdns --status

and then running

pdnsd-ctl

for doing runtime configuration.

[seraph741]

it seems like maybe the permissions are set wrong?

 

its the same error message that i get when u try to run something without root permissions.

 

let me know!