Hi All:

    Strange problem I am seeing on a number of servers, anyone have
suggestions on why this is happening and how to fix it?

Problem statement:
    Installing the bind and bind-utils rpms do not install all of the
associated files (especially /etc/named.conf)

Background:
    SL 5.5 based systems (seeing the same problem on 3 systems at this
point)
    X86_64 based machines
    rpm names:
       bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
       bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm


Procedure:
1) (just to show that /etc/named.conf does not previously exist)
$ ls -al /etc/named.conf
ls: /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory

2) (just to show that bind is not yet installed, which doesn't return
anything)
$ rpm -q -a | grep -i bind

3) (now, install bind and bind-libs)
$ rpm -ivh bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
bind-libs-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm
warning: bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature:
NOKEY, key ID 192a7d7d
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:bind-libs              ###########################################
[ 50%]
   2:bind                   ###########################################
[100%]

4) (now that bind and bind-libs are installed, look for /etc/named.conf
again)
$ ls -al /etc/named.conf
ls: /etc/named.conf: No such file or directory

5) (and show that /etc/named is supposed to be one of the files that
bind installs)
$ rpm -q -l bind | grep /etc/named.conf
/etc/named.conf
/usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.6/sample/etc/named.conf

Further notes:
    I have tried using the --replacefiles --replacepkgs options on rpm,
but that didn't seem to help either.
    I have also tried the new packages under security
(bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_3.x86_64.rpm and the associated bind-libs), but
still no /etc/named.conf

thanks for reading this and for any help you can provide,

Paul