Search Again: Re: QuickDNS Central stopped and won''t start From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 Time: 7:13:58 pm Try this: sudo mv /var/qdns/qdnscentral/mmUser* ~/ This will move the Users database to your home folder, out of the data directory. Then try the debug command again: sudo qdnscentrald -debug -ll5 QuickDNS Central should recreate the Users database with the default values (one user, administrator, password administrator). Chris Buxton Men & Mice - Making DNS Easy Customer Service and Sales Engineer At 5:41 PM -0600 9/21/04, rforest wrote: >Hoping someone can help me with this.... > >Had some drive problems and after fixing qdns central will not start up. > >When in terminal I get: >sudo /Library/StartupItems/QuickDNS/QuickDNS status >Checking QuickDNS Remote >Running >Checking QuickDNS Central >Stopped >Checking named >Running > >Then when entering: >genesis:/ root# sudo /usr/sbin/qdnscentrald -debug -ll5 >17:25:51 Error opening file "/var/qdns/qdnscentral/mmUser". > >Permissions on the files are system/wheel read/write for all, same >as the other files. >Strange thing is on a port scan 53 is open, but there is no >response, it's like something has grabbed the port. Webmin is also >installed, but the admin claims he's never used the DNS portion of >that software. > >Is there an easy way to fix this, or even a safe way to reinstall >everything. I don't care about the password at this point, and don't >mind re-entering it, as long as I can save the zones. > >Any and all help would be appreciated.... thanks > >Rob

Messages In This Thread: QuickDNS Central stopped and won''t start by rforest on Sep 21, 2004 at 4:43:19 pm Re: QuickDNS Central stopped and won''t start by Men & Mice Support on Sep 21, 2004 at 7:13:58 pm Re: QuickDNS Central stopped and won''t start by rforest on Sep 21, 2004 at 7:26:46 pm