Still Looking for Help: Why doesn't Maradns start at boot time?

[Ken Lyons - Graphix Wizard/Data-Forms]

If it helps anyone, this is how we start Mara. (Identical data on 
several servers around the world, updated 15/min)

We use many DNS servers that need to have identical information,
so we use the   inittab   to  respawn  a  perl script that  runs mara. 
A cron tab kills that script every 15 minutes so that it respawns with 
any new or changed data.
The script itself just downloads  all the config files, builds a new  
mara.rc  file, then runs runs mara (not deamon/background).

Should mara ever die for some unexplained reason, it would just cycle 
and restart like a normal update.
So for us, as long as the data is valid and correct, mara will keep 
running no matter what.





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Remco Rijnders wrote:
>> The one remaining issue (which is plainly critical in my ultimate ability
>> to
>> use mara) is that for some reason maradns fails to load chroot'ed in
>> resident mode at boot time. If I start maradns manually after boot as the
>> root user, it starts and runs fine. But when I reboot the server, I find
>> maradns did NOT restart during the boot process and I can't figure out
>> why.
>>     
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> Hi Greg,
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> How do you start maradns manually? As in, what command do you give to kick
> it off? I imagine that this might be different from how the server itself
> tries to start maradns at boot time.
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> Remco
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