Hello I am new on e-smith and like the features very much. It is a very fine product. The installation went in about 30 minutes. The base configuration took also only about 30 minutes. Compared to WinNT and Exchange it is a dream. But adding special features is nearly impossible and refers very much research into the structure of e-smith. Now i have studied the template-/event-/action-system and especially the DNS-configuration. As the result i have created a template and the actions, which configure my complete domains in a public zone- and conf-file (phantastic, call me god :) ) My goal is to drive a public DNS because i have a provider, who serves my DNS as "hidden primary". That means: i make the configuration of my zonefile on my DNS and the zone will be mirrored to the dns1 and dns2 of my provider. This is a very sophisticated solution because of the cost-free flexibility with the creation of sub-domains. Don't be irretated by the primary hidden. The setup is the same as i would drive an own public DNS. Problems solved: - Automatic generation of named-extern.conf by template - Automatic generation of zone-extern.primarydomain by template - i know where to set the restart- and conf-actions. - the conf-action is working very well. - the restart-action doesn't work. - a service "named-extern" is defined in the configuration-file of e-smith. Problems: The second named-instance is not starting: How can i start it ? The restart-action doesn't work. Where is the place, where the named-process is started chrooted. I know, i am a little step before the target, but it doesnt work until know. I spent about 3-4 days in the research-line for understanding the philosophy and technology of e-smith-architecture. But the documentation covers only a little surface of the whole very good system. I need advise how to set up a second instance of named My mean experience is in the administration of SUSE-Linux. But so far as i can see RedHat has similar structure. Thank you for your help Peter
