dns server is offline help please?

[lang]

hi all gurus, please help a newbie, I have setup ubuntu 9.04 server (with a GUI for ease of use and because im a newbie) and ispconfig 3 as per falko tutorial, all went well so well done Falko for making it foolproof....well not quite, ispconfig/monitor reports my-dns server is offline, i ran /etc/init.d/mydns start through a terminal and got this error

/etc/init.d/mydns: line 18: syntax error near unexpected token `start'

what on earth does it mean please and how can i fix it.

TIA
Lang

[falko]

What's in /etc/init.d/mydns?

[lang]

What's in /etc/init.d/mydns?

#! /bin/sh
#
# mydns start the MyDNS Server
#
#
set -e
path=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
daemon=/usr/local/sbin/mydns
name=mydns
desc="dns server"

scriptname=/etc/init.d/$name

#gracefully exit if the package has been removed
test -x $daemon || exit 0

case "$1"in
start)
echo -n "starting $desc: $name"
start-stop-daemon --start --quite \
--exec $daemon -- -b
echo "."
;;

hi there, thanks for the reply, above is a cut and paste. im pretty sure ??? i typed it in as you described in your tutorial, but maybe not, I am a total newbie and dont really understand yet what all the commands mean :o the server will be just an old computer i have at home and will serve just one site at this stage, but if i can get it to work i will run other sites i maintain on it as well, just a matter of slowly getting my head around it.... probably just a typo, so thanks if you can spot my mistake.

[falko]

Did you copy the script from the tutorial, or did you type it manually? In the latter case you probably made a typo somewhere...

[lang]

Did you copy the script from the tutorial, or did you type it manually? In the latter case you probably made a typo somewhere...

I installed ubuntu server as per your tutorial then installed a desktop, found your tutorial again and cut and pasted from browser to terminal, only changes i made were where you used the IP 198.168.0.100 i used my actual IP, netmask, gateway etc.

[falko]

Try copy&paste again, I think something must have gone wrong with your first try.