On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 05:04:09PM -0700, Gabriel Kuri wrote:
> In migrating from bind to nsd, I currently have split views in bind and
> need to run multiple instances of nsd to accomplish the same thing. What's
> the best way to start multiple instances of nsd? I tried copying
> /etc/rc.d/nsd to /etc/rc.d/nsd-internal and in the rc script I changed
> daemon_flags to "-c /var/nsd/etc/nsd-internal.conf" to reflect the new
> config name, but it doesn't work, that instance of nsd doesn't start and
> there's no errors in /var/log/daemon and I have no idea why it's not
> starting. I also updated nsd-internal.conf to use a different port,
> different PID file and DB name, so they wouldn't conflict with the primary
> instance of nsd, but no luck.
>
> Anyone else running multiple instances of nsd, if so, what did you do to
> get it to work?
Extract from the rc.subr man page:
<...>
Apart from a few notable exceptions, rc scripts must follow this naming
policy:
<...>
2. Dashes (‘-’) have to be converted to underscores (‘_’).
You should read both rc.d and rc.subr man pages.
Also, usually it's easier to just link to the original rc.d script instead of
copying it, so that you can benefit from updates to the original script.
--
Antoine
