Working on named(8) with a co-worker yesterday, we were surprised to see what 
appears to be a typo in the rc.d script in FreeBSD-8.1.

Please find attached a patch for HEAD (not FreeBSD-8.1; the typo still exists 
in HEAD).

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Attachment: named.patch
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Details/History:

In FreeBSD-8.1, the rc.d script declares named(8) isn't running when it-is 
because the default pidfile is incorrectly "/var/run/named/pid" when the 
program itself writes "/var/run/named.pid" (notice the trailing ".pid" versus 
"/pid").

In SVN rev 220962 the rc.d script was changed by dougb to dynamically determine 
the pidfile location from the configuration file. When this patch was applied, 
the rc.d script started working again w/respect to "status" (accurately 
reported when named(8) was/wasn't running). Unfortunately, the typo still 
exists (see patch for HEAD).

I would like to request that this patch be made against HEAD, and the changes 
be MFC'd to stable/8, ultimately to be ready for the release/8.3 branch when 
copied (we're planning on skipping 8.2 and jumping to 8.3 as our next release; 
currently being on 8.1).

Aside:

On FreeBSD-8.1, if someone wants to make the appropriate fix, the change must 
be made in two places. src/etc/rc.d/named and src/etc/defaults/rc.conf

Work-around in FreeBSD-8.1 and older (not sure about 8.2, but RELENG_8 appears 
to have received SVN rev 220962 so named_pidfile no longer has any effect):

Add named_pidfile="/var/run/named.pid" to your rc.conf(5)
-- 
Devin
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