dns errors simple question

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Dec 21 00:31:24 UTC 2001


In article <9vtnqj$aae at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Tester <CalinG at cfgroup.ca> wrote:
>    I am getting errors like:
>-named:could not open pid file '/var/run/named/named.pid' :Permission denied
>-dumping master file "zonefile": Permission denied
>I am using RH7.2, Bind 9.1.3. What permissions should I assign?

The user that named runs as has to have write permission to /var/run/named,
/var/run/named/named.pid, and the directory named in the "directory"
options in named.conf.

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