Sorry to probably ask the obvious but what command do I use to start it manually?
> On 22 Sep 2022, at 15:27, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sep 22, 2022, at 8:56 AM, Mark Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just updated to bind 9.18.7 (Intel mac mini - macOS 12.6 ) and despite >> checking the config was ok, which it was, bind refuses to start. >> Looking at the contents of /opt/local/var/named/ mysteriously most of the >> files were now listed as being owned by non existent user 511. >> e.g. -rw-r--r-- 1 511 named - 3.2K 4 Aug 2021 named.root >> Tried uninstalling and reinstalling bind9 and changing /opt/local/var/named/ >> files owner to named but the problem remains. > > I think the permissions stuff is unrelated to the port - it only installs > these files into /opt/local/var/named: > > % port contents bind9 | grep /opt/local/var/named > /opt/local/var/named/db.127.0.0.dist > /opt/local/var/named/db.cache.dist > /opt/local/var/named/db.localhost.dist > > You can try to start named by hand with `-g` (and maybe add a -d # option) to > try to get more information on why it's not starting for you. > > -- > Daniel J. Luke >
