named problem

Tim Maestas tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com
Mon Feb 19 12:45:01 UTC 2001



	BIND tried to write the process id of named into 
	/var/run/named.pid.  As /var/run did not exist, it
	failed.  Creating /var/run should solve your problem.

-Tim


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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Yu Kobayashi wrote:

> 
> Hello, 
> 
> Recently I installed the newest BIND (BIND-9.1.1rc) into 
> the Sun SPARC Workstation. The installation worked fine, 
> so I rebooted the workstation. 
> 
> Now here is a problem. The workstation tried to start 
> named, but there were messages like the following:
> 
> ...
> named[number]: starting BIND 9.1.1rc2
> named[number]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
> named[number]: coudn't open pid file /var/run/named.pid:
>                No such file or directory
> named[number]: exiting (due to early fatal error)
> ...
> 
> I saw these messages in the /var/adm/message file.
> Now I have some questions:
> 
> 1. What kind of fatal error is this?
> 2. Did I install BIND incorrectly?
> 3. I couldn't find /var/run/named.pid file. Where is it? Oh, 
>   there is no such directory like /var/run.
> 
> The Operating System is Solaris 8. 
> I would greatly appreciate your help.
> 
> Thank you in regards.
> 
> 
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>  Yu Kobayashi
>  koba at isl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
>  y-koba at jp-n.ne.jp
>  http://www.ann.hi-ho.ne.jp/y-kob/
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