Re: named or not?

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:39 +0200, Tomislav Vujec wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:41 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > No, NM no longer spawns named directly at any point.  If named is
> > already running (we check whether the DBUS service that named provides
> > is active or not) then NM will use it.  If the service is not running,
> > NM falls back to writing /etc/resolv.conf.  NM no longer launches named
> > at all.
> 
> I've noticed that patched bind also comes with the service file:
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/named.service
> As it is now, D-BUS uses similar service file for dhcdbd to start the
> service if it is not already running. Why is starting named a
> requirement, while starting dhcdbd happens automatically? 

Both of them should be started by init during boot.  I think starting it
through this mechanism is just incorrect.

-- 
  Peter