deleted master dns zone and messed bind9 up :\

billymayday · 03-24-2008, 05:02 AM

Sorry - try

/etc/init.d/named start

steve51184 · 03-24-2008, 05:12 AM

Code:

-bash: /etc/init.d/named: No such file or directory

do you mean /etc/init.d/bind9 start ?

billymayday · 03-24-2008, 05:20 AM

If that's what it's called in Debian, then yes (it's "named" in RedHat)

steve51184 · 03-24-2008, 05:26 AM

Code:

Mar 24 07:53:01 thereddwarf kernel: [15928.310000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
Mar 24 08:07:45 thereddwarf -- MARK --
Mar 24 08:27:45 thereddwarf -- MARK --
Mar 24 08:47:45 thereddwarf -- MARK --
Mar 24 08:58:44 thereddwarf kernel: [19871.820000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
Mar 24 08:59:20 thereddwarf kernel: [19907.130000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
Mar 24 09:27:45 thereddwarf -- MARK --
Mar 24 09:47:45 thereddwarf -- MARK --
Mar 24 10:07:45 thereddwarf -- MARK --
Mar 24 10:26:13 thereddwarf kernel: [25120.540000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.

billymayday · 03-24-2008, 05:35 AM

This doesn't really look like a bind error, but who knows. Did you do anything other than delete a file?

I think if it were me, I'd uninstall bind and reinstall. Would that be simple enough for you to do?

steve51184 · 03-24-2008, 05:46 AM

apt-get remove bind9 then apt-get install bind9 but i did that and it didn't do anything

plus i don't want to lose my old settings

billymayday · 03-24-2008, 06:02 AM

You wouldn't lose your settings if you backed-up you zone files.

What else happened around this time? I suspect you've done a lot more damage than deleting a reverse DNS entry

steve51184 · 03-24-2008, 06:04 AM

ahh it's /var/log/syslog not /var/log/messages

Code:

Mar 24 11:00:27 thereddwarf named[14134]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -u bind
Mar 24 11:00:27 thereddwarf named[14134]: found 2 CPUs, using 2 worker threads
Mar 24 11:00:27 thereddwarf named[14134]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
Mar 24 11:00:27 thereddwarf named[14134]: /etc/bind/named.conf:40: zone 'mydomain1.com': already exists previous definition: /etc/bind/named.conf:30
Mar 24 11:00:27 thereddwarf named[14134]: /etc/bind/named.conf:45: zone 'mydomain2.com': already exists previous definition: /etc/bind/named.conf:34
Mar 24 11:00:27 thereddwarf named[14134]: loading configuration: failure
Mar 24 11:00:27 thereddwarf named[14134]: exiting (due to fatal error)

looks like i had them in there twice somehow (ispconfig i guess) anyway billymayday you've helped me again and this time i've learnt to look in the log files as the answer it there

i will use this in the future

thank you again!!

billymayday · 03-24-2008, 06:07 AM

Cool.

Always remember your logs - don't always help, but usually do. If you aren't sure which log, the time from ls -l may help narrow things down.