UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Dear All ,

Kindly i would like to start the named whenever the system reboot , currently i start it manually .

for more info. i have both named , one from SUN , and other one i installed it from internet , now i want the one from SUN to start automatically when rebooting .

its path is : /usr/sbin/in.named

what dir. shall i edit , to make the DNS work automatically when booting ??

thanks

It matters what version of the OS but you can search for named in /etc/rc2.d and probably find what you are looking for.

It should be S72inetsvc where named is started - you may need /etc/named.conf or /etc/named.boot (again, it matters what version came with the OS).

Since there have been some problems with named and security, you would be better off with using the one you built than using the older version that came with the OS (if you are connected to the Internet).

I know S72inetsvc is named startup script that runs at run level two but what does the number 72 means?

The startup scripts are number because of the way the OS works - it runs all files begining with S (startup) - to insure that your interface is started before something that requires connection to another server (possibly) like NIS ypbind, it also sorts the list of files by the number.

Thanks, so does this means the greater the number the higher the priority and How does the OS assign the number during installation.

The higher the number is not the higher priority. It's just so the scripts are run in an order - you can add scripts to the directory. It doesn't matter what number you give it - as long as you watch out that you aren't starting something first that needed another service. If you aren't sure, add it to /etc/rc3.d/.

You could name them S01aaaa, S01aaab, S02aaaa and they would run in this order:
S01aaaa
S01aaab
S02aaaa

Since you want to be descriptive, you set up the names to give a clue of what you are doing
S88sendmail
S73named
S92volmgt
S75cron

You would see the order if you did ls -1 S* on the rcX.d directories.