Hi All:
Strange problem I am seeing on a number of servers, anyone have
suggestions on why this is happening and how to fix it?
Problem statement:
Installing the bind and bind-utils rpms do not install all of the
associated files (especially /etc/named.conf)
Background:
SL 5.5 based systems (seeing the same problem on 3 systems at this
point)
X86_64 based machines
rpm names:
bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
Procedure:
1) (just to show that /etc/named.conf does not previously exist)
$ ls -al /etc/named.conf
ls: /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory
2) (just to show that bind is not yet installed, which doesn't return
anything)
$ rpm -q -a | grep -i bind
3) (now, install bind and bind-libs)
$ rpm -ivh bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
warning: bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID 192a7d7d
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:bind-libs ###########################################
[ 50%]
2:bind ###########################################
[100%]
4) (now that bind and bind-libs are installed, look for /etc/named.conf
again)
$ ls -al /etc/named.conf
ls: /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory
5) (and show that /etc/named is supposed to be one of the files that
bind installs)
$ rpm -q -l bind | grep /etc/named.conf
/etc/named.conf
/usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.6/sample/etc/named.conf
Further notes:
I have tried using the --replacefiles --replacepkgs options on rpm,
but that didn't seem to help either.
I have also tried the new packages under security
(bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_3.x86_64.rpm and the associated bind-libs), but
still no /etc/named.conf
thanks for reading this and for any help you can provide,
Paul
