Another of those day pairs where I do lots of things (yesterday) and spend the whole next
day writing up about them (today). I didn't even finish before dinner.
File system full on fra.lemis.com today. Nothing unusual: it's the web server logs.
Rotate (I must really automate this) and compress.
But then I saw a file /var/tmp/webfoo or some such, and it was big (gigabytes) and
growing. Where did that come from? lsof to my aid. Oh, no lsof. OK,
=== root@fra (/dev/pts/1) /var/tmp 62 -> pkg install lsof
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: An error occurred while fetching package: No error
pkg: An error occurred while fetching package: No error
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
And there it hung. This isn't a very old system (FreeBSD 14.2, not even a year old).
While pondering what to do, compressing the old web log completed. And webfoo went
away. Was it a symlink maybe? It had a link count of 1. Strange name to choose, more like something that I might
have thought up. But I have no recollection.
No named failures today, but it's only a matter of time. And currently I have no
backup, so each failure means an average of 30 minutes with no resolution. Why not do it
on fra?
Oh. fra has had a named running since December last year. Copy the latest
zone files and try again:
=== root@fra (/dev/pts/1) /usr/local/etc/namedb 115 -> service named restart
named not running? (check /var/run/named/pid).
/usr/local/etc/namedb/named.conf:7: unix control '/var/run/ndc': not supported
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/named: ERROR: named-checkconf for /usr/local/etc/namedb/named.conf failed
There's something very strange about named.
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