servermgr_dns crashes – So What?

[chet]

I managed my own DNS files manually; I learned to do it this way a while back, and never really felt comfortable with Apple’s GUI. My nameservers work fine.

However, whenever I use ServerAdmin, it tells the server to try to run servermgr_dns, which crashes for some reason. I get a dialog box error in SA every time it happens, and there’s a corresponding message in the log. Lovely.

This doesn’t appear to be causing any real trouble, but it sure is annoying. Is there some way I can make servermgr_dns happy, or, failing that, stop it from running? What’s it _for_?

(10.3.9 Server)

[maccanada]

The crashing is probably because the configuration file can’t be parsed due to your changes. It’s nothing to worry about, merely an indication that your setup can’t be shown in the ServerAdmin GUI – servermgr_dns is the process that server admin uses to display andedit the DNS configuration.

You can delete/rename/move the DNS.bundle from within Serveradmin.app quite happily – obviously you’ll have no DNS section anymore, but it will stop the crash messages 🙂

[chet]

Oh, awesome. I didn’t think of doing that, but it’s just exactly what I need.

I suppose I could also pull out the other bits I don’t use (Mail, since I use the ECM bundle; Web, since I’m also more comfortable with http.conf files than the GUI), but they aren’t exactly causing any trouble. Yet.

Thanks again.

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