RedHat 6.2

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Jacobs <paul at netpacq.com> writes:

    >> On RedHat 6.2 named ist running as user "named" and group
    >> "named".  It cannot create /var/run/named.pid because of
    >> wrong permission.  What is wrong ?

    Paul> This error does not matter at all in 6.2, just annoying..

This error *does* matter. [If it didn't matter, why would the name
server complain about it?] ndc sometimes reads named.pid to figure out
which process it should signals to. These signals are used to control
the name server: reload, start, etc. If this file does not exist (or
worse still, contains the wrong PID), ndc - and by implication the
name server - will behave unpredictably. If named.pid contains an old
PID from a previous time the name server ran, ndc could end up killing
some random process that happens to have that PID.