From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L7aDK-0002XK-Hf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:43:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20F23E0306; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.sgi.com [192.48.179.30]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D3E6E0306 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 18:43:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [150.166.39.100]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93063041E2 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:43:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (conejo.engr.sgi.com [150.166.8.69]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id mB2Ih6Pk031671 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:43:06 -0800 Received: from conejo.engr.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id mB2IgoxN196769 for ; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:43:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rsanders@localhost) by conejo.engr.sgi.com (SGI-8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/Submit) id mB2Igo7W183002 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:42:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:42:50 -0800 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Completely remove BIND Message-ID: <20081202184250.GA194876@sgi.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org References: <493580B1.60704@ercbroadband.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <493580B1.60704@ercbroadband.org> Organization: SGI, Mountain View, California, U.S.A. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 2450afc8-4f13-4dde-be68-c5fba2710a35 X-Archives-Hash: 2e589c10a1210bb5f14f6fd42abc6523 Mark Haney, mused, then expounded: > I've done something really stupid and FUBAR'd my BIND install on what will > be my new slave DNS server. The problem is that no matter what I do, when > I try to start BIND the system claims 'named is already started'. > Sorry for asking the obvious.. Have you tried - /etc/init.d/{bind} zap If you haven't rebooted the system to running flag is still set in /var. Bob > What I want to do now is start over, tabula rasa, and rebuild BIND. I've > tried emerge -C bind bind-tools but when I emerge it back, I still get the > same problem. > > So, any decent, non-system-destructive ways to wipe BIND off the system. > -