Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.7.1_p2 does not want to stop...

[Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com>]

On 16. 11. 2010 20:47, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Do you absolutely *have* to run bind? Aside from it being a 100% RFC-compliant
> reference server, it's a pig to run in real life. For an auth server, powerdns
> is very good. For a cache, unbound.

Well, not *absolutely*, but I'm an old dog used to work with old tools
like bind, sendmail, etc. I'm getting older with them...

> What you have here is common. Bind can't find, or can't deal with, it's PID
> file. Or it's just being stubborn.
>
> Check your config that the PID file is in the right place, usable and that it
> has the correct pid in it. Also check the init script for the same thing.

To me pid seems to be in the right place. Nothing suspicious...

> Failing that, there's "kill -9", this won't break anything but might
> disconnect a client.

Well, I could kill the process while working in terminal. But when
I forget to do it and try to shutdown server, it hangs and waits.
And *that* is a problem. I have to power it off, and next time when
I boot up, I have to fsck all partitions...

Jarry

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